Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'2" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Riardon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His childhood dream was to be a Cook, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Fisher like his father before him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Orryn enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His silver hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 sp. Banded agate (10 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing a long, brown cloak. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length red hair. He has violet eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Hadarai is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Hadarai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Hadarai abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Mentor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Chain shirt.