Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He uses divination through singing.

History: Radomir hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Expand his business; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He stands about 3'2" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 71. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 48000 sp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gifted student he started as a Ploughman, but he got bored and became a Apothecary. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 170 pp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a simple blue robe with black stripes complete with hood. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Eberdeb grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2600 gp.