Description: He is typically in his Bather uniform. He is portly but not overly obese. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in the west to a Bather, Efferil learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: To be a Servant again.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a green shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and tan pants and is in decent physical shape. His blue crest is singed and shortened. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Sailor, but he was a colossal failure. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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: Tiaathque was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is very fat, and sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in the north to a Barrister, Immeral learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Through the years after Immeral was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Immeral's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Erias took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Sard (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. His crest is rusty and curly. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He found a children's book about a Dragonborn Ranger who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 12000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp). 8 Acid flasks. 1 Thunderstones. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a white collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Sporting a chestnut mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears an entirely blue suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes, marred by teas. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: Koeth lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Koeth 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. Koeth decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a blue coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Ulla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ulla was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.