Description: This southern man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull green iron scale mail. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Mindartis was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears professional attire and is in decent physical shape. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born in the south to a Cartwright, Theren learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Carter again.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is silver and curly. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Aust was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Expand his business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Amethyst (100 gp).