Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears his blonde hair up. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Aelar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 pp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His black hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp).

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of whips, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Adran hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Adran was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Seamstress.

Motivation: To be a Priest again.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 gp. Coral (80 gp). Malachite (9 gp).