Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a Sage, his father struggled to pay the bills. Through the years after Peren was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Peren's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2000 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Azurite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He has wavy golden hair. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Carrie hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Blue quartz (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp).