Description: This younger middle-aged man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Nim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the west 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: Retire the richest man in the south; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: He wears green trousers with blue and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His purple hair, when down, is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Crown-heir born in the past three hundred years. He is an amazing painter.

History: Sammal lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears tattered old clothes. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Roywyn was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and green handkerchief worn on his left side. His black hair is still thick. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and blue pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His gray fur is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Sun was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Holy water.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is silver and curly. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Body Guard born in the past three hundred years. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her childhood dream was to be a Laborer, but she was a colossal failure. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Body Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Mercenary does, and carries warhammers. His fur is lavender and curly. This yellow eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quick hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 260 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Apothecary. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Veloptima never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She's in love; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Military, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Body Guard. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Manfred isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Body Guard arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 gp.