Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Giselle is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the north to a Dyer, Giselle learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Religious, Job, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken from his home at a very young age. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a junk dealer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: The child of a Slave Trader, who enjoyed hunting, Bernard was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he's in love

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.