Mark Jackson is 39, a financial advisor who specializes in people in the entertainment industry. He’s worth high 8 to low 9 figures, makes more than most clients most years. He’s obsessed with doing his job right, is pretty sharp but his big ability is sales. Wanted to be an actor, realized his talents weren’t top grade, and switched majors, but still gets offered roles from time to time. Divorced, no children. Just under 6 feet, reasonably fit. Younger brother works for Department of Forestry in Idaho. Mother still alive, but father dead.
Julie Ingmar is 34, a criminal defense attorney working for a major firm. She’s divorced, no children. She and Mark meet when he’s under suspicion of murdering his ex-wife, and they clicked – but she has no illusions about all of her clients being innocent, and willing to be blunt sometimes. She’s an only child, both parents still alive. She knits (and crochets), often while she’s reading briefs, power-walks for exercise.
RaDonna Adedeji is one-eighth elven, so although she looks mid thirties, she’s over sixty in reality. Claims to be of Nigerian descent for the general public. Friends with Mark for several years, manages the office for the co-operative he’s a part of. She’s a decent sorceress (cookbook magician), but her elven great-grandmother is a powerful mage (true magician). Her husband Roland Adedeji is three eighths elven and an apparent billionaire, although he’s only a front for the West Elves (most of it isn’t really his).
Zebulon Pike (‘Old Zeb’) is just under two centuries old, one of the few human mages. He was born a slave on a plantation in South Carolina, stumbled over the Star Elves who discovered his talent while prospecting for gold. He lives near a Star Elven settlement up in the Sierra-Nevada mountains. Makes his money by creating and selling gold. Wants to be god’s gift to women, but has forgotten about regular bathing.
John Wilson is mid thirties, average size and fat. His talent is math – summa cum laude at UCLA. He works as Mark’s assistant, and is licensed himself, but he never is allowed to talk to clients, as he couldn’t sell a life preserver to a drowning man (and he knows it). But he is very good at finding investments that perform and weeding out the scams and under-performers. Mark pays him very well for that and for keeping track of license requirements. Tells inappropriate jokes, he and his wife Mollie are fans and active in the SCA.
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