Description: This southern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bastard sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bastard sword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 pp. Pink pearl (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: 4'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and red robe with the hood down. His tied-back hair is chestnut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. 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: He wants revenge against goblins.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a tan broad hat and tan clothes. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chalcedony (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.