Description: This younger middle-aged man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Erdan liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: In love, Family, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. Amethyst (120 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Jet (120 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Himo hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the east to a Bricklayer, Himo learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. Recently the stress of being a Bricklayer has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red garnet (100 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Black opal (900 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'10" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Theriatis was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Dyer. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Black opal (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).