Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in the west. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Sailor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Jocelyn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). 1 Spyglass. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This light-skinned female very much looks the part of a Guard. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Oriel grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Red spinel (90 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her silver hair is still thick. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Margery speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Margery was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Carter. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: This northern woman wears just a pastel suit. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She got into the Gardener business at a young age. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Gardener for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Marshal again.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Gardener

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

Possessions: 60 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.