Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with black pants. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Tharivol lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Moss agate (12 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, grey cloak. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in the south to a Spice Merchant, Oren learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Aust is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 700 gp. Sard (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Adelard will drive conversation. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born in the south to a Slave Trader, Adelard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His first spouse was a Bounty Hunter, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Job, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp. Moss agate (8 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp).