Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Tarak 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 left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold and ruby ring (8000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His brown hair is long and unkept. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 120 pp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and green handkerchief worn on his right side. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

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. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Medium magic item.