"Drinks or info chummer, both cost. One costs cred and the other costs favors. Too much of the former will give you a killer hangover, and too much of the latter might just kill you altogether."

A bartender contact/info broker for the Shadowrun rpg setting, can be easily adapted to any cyberpunk or other high tech campaign.

A blind mage with a liking for sound-based magics

Dimble Stumpwater is this worlds last best hope for expedient library book returns

Do you know what this means? asked the healer, staring earnestly at the boy from beneath his bushy white eyebrows.

Xander shook his head, his lip trembling.

“No.”

The healer’s felt a rush of sympathy for the child. he reminded him of Shalleah somehow. 13 years was such a young age to die.

“You have but three months left.” he said slowly and softly. Each word rang solitarily through the room, and though they were whispered they had more impact then anything the young boy had ever heard before.

A mysterious prophet who speaks in riddles.

“Everybody knows that!” -Mantra of knowitalls everywhere.

Everybody must be the wisest person in all of Creation, because he seems to know everything!

Known throughout the land for his miracle elixir. Worshipped by the poor, envied by the rich, the miracles follow him as he travels, or so he would have everyone believe.

A disembodied hand enthralled by an evil wizard to fetch books for him.

A shaman like man appears out of nowhere and asks if any of the PCs have ever heard of him.