Description: This tall, slender man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Roland hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Roland was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Ekk speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This western woman dresses like a well dressed Dyer does. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. 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 born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Balifra was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dyer. She struck the Dyer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.