Description: This man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His red crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: A deep hatred of illithids; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 110 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a violet shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. Her golden hair is long and unkept. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Xanaphia was born the youngest of three triplets. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Xanaphia has worked very hard to control her curse. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. Her auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a black costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her childhood dream was to be a Body Guard, but she was a colossal failure. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).