Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. His blue hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Paymon was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Expert, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Expert in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. Being a Adventurer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1400 sp. White pearl (40 gp). 4 Thunderstones. 3 Acid flasks. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2100 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Chad was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.