Description: This late middle aged man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat and is in decent physical shape. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Nordak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He's also a talented Detective, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She very much looks the part of a Knight. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mella 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 Mella. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He sports a flattop crest cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 18th 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 has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her gray fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are yellow and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Cloud hails from a village terrorized by illithids. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 120 gp.