Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His hair is short and blonde. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His first spouse was a Shoemaker, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He's also a talented Shoemaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and carries flails. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Gifted from a young age, Oskar studied abroad. Oskar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Oskar decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is typically in his Tanner uniform. He has cinnamon fur. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Smoking was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears skinny pants and wears a red and green robe with the hood down and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born into a rich family. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Priest. 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: Expand his business; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Xanaphia took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. After months of barely getting by, Xanaphia managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1500 gp).