Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Balimaar hails from a village terrorized by drow. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 6000 sp. Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 gp. Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She is wearing a long, yellow cloak. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is mildly Human supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mercenary business.

History: Emmeline lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Expand her business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears red trousers with black and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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: He was raised in a plains tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Violet garnet (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Emerald (500 gp).