Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Smoky quartz (20 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Engraver. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Engraver. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90 pp. Golden pearl (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She carries with her a set of rapiers on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Hadwisa hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Bernard hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Bernard was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp.