Description: He wears professional attire, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'10" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Lance isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a simple tan robe with pastel stripes complete with hood, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is short and silver. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His first spouse was a Priest, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. 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: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a long, tan cloak. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 4000 cp. White pearl (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She sports white long hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a Engraver first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Healer profession.

History: She is a Succubi in disguise. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). She then took over the family business and is one of the better Engraver for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: She wears tan trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has wavy red hair. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting illithids, the young Fibblestib began to lead the lost caravan. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20000 sp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.