Description: He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Architect. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Architect for the past few years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Architect

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

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Griselda fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Richard 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. Richard 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 eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and tridents. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Solomon was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp.