Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a very tight haircut. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Varis hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and very much looks the part of a Doctor. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born to a Merchant, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Doctor.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 70000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Barrister work with an outfit from a few towns over. Barrister work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Barrister job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Felgrat enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Sensitive, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1900 sp.