Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'3". He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a pickaxe. His hair is white and very short. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. He has taken up work as a Shepherd and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'9" and has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Zagga is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Zagga lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'0" when asserting himself. His fur is short and gray. He is baby faced.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ethereal 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 Ethereal. After months of barely getting by, Ethereal managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Rûg was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.