Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He prefers to wear flannel. He is an epitome of beauty. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Aramil was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. White pearl (90 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He usually wears his blue robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Nutae enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Nutae was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 pp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 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.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in a small plains village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Guardian, Nature, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp).