Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Zûgor 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 Zûgor. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has rusty crest. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His white hair is singed and shortened. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Charles was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He has worked as a Butcher like his father before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He has wavy scarlet crest. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He uses divination through singing.

History: Tarhun lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 pp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).