Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a grey vest and prefers brown and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Rolen will drive conversation. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born to a Doctor, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rolen grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rolen. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Rose (20 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Black opal (900 gp).

Description: An older man who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, he is not a threatening figure. His red hair is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature crossbow.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.