Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and carries ceremonial daggers. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born in the east to a Carter, Thomas learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thomas grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Thomas. He has worked as a Carter like his father before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (80 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears professional attire. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Nicholas and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 gp. Black star sapphire (400 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp.