Description: This malnourished man wears just a black suit. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Human compassion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 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 wears a top hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp).

Description: He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.