Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. At some point he was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. 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: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: This man prefers to wear flannel, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Orsik was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1500 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp).

Description: This woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Jarsali was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Emotional, Fearful, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 340 gp. Peridot (80 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Miner arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 16th 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. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. Obsidian (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.