Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His black hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a Bookbinder first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 3000 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: This eastern man prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and white with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Crown-heir born in the past three hundred years. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Soveliss hails from a village terrorized by orcs. At some point he was captured by orcs and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has worked as a Crown-heir like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a healer again

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Suhnae will drive conversation. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Suhnae was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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 regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Eye agate (12 gp).