Description: A middle-aged man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Merchant born in the past three hundred years. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Manfred 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. Manfred decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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 used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To be a Doctor again.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Full Plate.

Description: She wears a green collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Helen has worked very hard to control her curse. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 sp. Amber (140 gp). Sard (80 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat, marred by beers. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Theodoric studied abroad. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (1000 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Sarah was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Amber (110 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Amber (110 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.