Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is physically well-built. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tan collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is golden and curly. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Paelias was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Ûshbaka lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He's also a talented Cook, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Religious, Job, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Medrash 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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Medrash hails from a village terrorized by drow. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 160 gp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: A 2'11" northern woman, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is brown and curly. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a great chef.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp).