Description: A 5'4" western man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Riardon and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a blue vest and prefers black and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. He has blue eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp).