Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Fargrim hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fargrim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He has a hunchback. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Fisher mother left him crippled. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Eiravel was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has worked as a Bookbinder like his mother before him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'4". He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is cut close to his head. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Traki was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 gp.