Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears his chestnut hair up. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and revenge

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Odo hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. After coming to the age of reason, Odo took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is greedy; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 sp. Amber (130 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears professional attire. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp.