Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Simon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Fortune-teller hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

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

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40000 cp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Good lock. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Good lock.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a pastel tunic with white highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He has moderate length black hair. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Norman is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Norman never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 5000 sp. Red spinel (160 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.