Description: This southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a blonde mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Rolen hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. 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: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bather. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears just a green suit. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is dark red and curly. His ears are large.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. The war was a terrible time for him, and Cressel does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Cressel grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Cressel. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 140 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp).