Description: He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Baern 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 a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Gifted from a young age, Baern studied abroad. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length yellow fur. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She hates Tabaxis with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Fragrant and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insomniac, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1100 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Miller. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Sumnes never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and revenge

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Nature, In love, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His crest, while still mostly copper, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Kerkad lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Minor magic item.