Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He got into the Healer business at a young age. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. After a long history of fighting, Ar-Beka and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp. Malachite (6 gp). White pearl (100 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His auburn hair is cut short. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Mord is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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 is content.

Flaws: Depressed, Selfish, Mundane, Fearful. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 5000 cp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a tan costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Meriele 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 Meriele. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her crest, while still mostly brass, has prominent grey streaks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hethress grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new junk dealer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a flail on his belt. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3000 sp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Amber (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.