Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Emotional, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older man who dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a green coat with white slacks, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Traki was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To be a Sailor again; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2300 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He wears a white coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. He wears his auburn hair up. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Altho lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is light but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She tends to wear a large white jacket. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Oolah was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Hunter. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Emerald (600 gp). Rose (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp).