Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: The child of a Brewer, who enjoyed hunting, Oppleby was taken on many hunting expeditions. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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. Oppleby fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a yellow coat. His auburn hair is still thick. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in a small island village. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Hunter, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Hunter

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

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man prefers to wear flannel. His clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a nunchaku on his belt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. Lucan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Lucan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Masseuse, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a masseuse again

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.