Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has white eyes.

Personality: Forcas is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Gifted from a young age, Forcas studied abroad. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her crest is green and very short. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born in the south to a Barrister, Pogranix learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Pogranix's homeland. Pogranix decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She struck the Barrister job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His rusty crest is long and unkept. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Mehen hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. 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 his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Scribe again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.