Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Baern will drive conversation. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Baern grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Baern. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp. Silver pearl (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman usually wears her brown robe and has her lance always slung over her shoulder and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her gray fur in a flapper bob. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She struck the Stylist job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

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

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has green eyes and a violet hat with a black feather.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Pink pearl (120 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 cp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).