Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has blue hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are silver.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Balam was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. She wears her silver hair up. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Elizabeth lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Stableman for hire.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His gold crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Junk Dealer. He's also a talented Marshal, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He wears dull white sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed nunchaku, just in case. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A freak accident while working with his Engraver father left him crippled. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to protect his home

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this western man wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Pallabar is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Pallabar hails from a village terrorized by illithids. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Pallabar was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 sp.