Description: A middle-aged man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. At a young age his mother died while driving off some illithids. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in lance use. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alston fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 gp. Gold music box (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears professional attire. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is red and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 240 gp. Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is an amazing painter.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 5000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a pastel vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her pastel boots flare out at the collars. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her white fur is matted, messy, and big. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp).