Description: He usually wears his black robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'4" when asserting herself. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. The war was a terrible time for her, and Emma does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Emma reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emma fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Rose (60 gp).

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Lance lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Sailor they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Shoemaker, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Solomon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 5000 sp. Red garnet (120 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.