Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His long blue crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does, and is pretty ugly. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Heian was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This woman wears a white tunic with blue highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She wears long strands of emerald and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 280 gp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). Moonstone (30 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'0" when asserting himself. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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: Morkral was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 6000 cp. 3 Holy water.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Sage. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He tends to his Sage job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She keeps her long orange fur kept up in a rat tail. This yellow eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. After a long history of fighting, Gale and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This woman wears long strands of sapphire and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Nemeia lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 140 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and a wedding ring on his right hand. His yellow fur is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nimble fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Pink pearl (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp).