Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His green crest, when down, is lengthy. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Healer profession.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He worked as a nervous Soapmaker and found it very stressful. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 12000 sp. Rose (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears bulky white painted plate armor, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has a very tight haircut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Ratak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a worn and beaten armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is blonde and curly. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

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. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is greedy

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 gp. Coral (110 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Red garnet (110 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Dreali was born with his father's beautiful face. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2100 sp. 1 Average lock. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.