Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her white unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Seere 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. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Seere grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Seere. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: This southern man wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has wavy gold crest. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Miner kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Pink pearl (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of a Adventurer, who enjoyed hunting, Caelynn was taken on many hunting expeditions. Caelynn liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Caelynn was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 70 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is typically in his Merchant uniform. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He carries with him a set of axes, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is black and curly. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He wears professional attire. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his falchion, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Banker. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Shane never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This man is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. His orange fur is lengthy. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has worked as a Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.