Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blue crest has been sun bleached extensively. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. The war was a terrible time for him, and Shedinn does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Shedinn was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Shedinn was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 70 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'2" and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His red hair is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Nalral was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Coral (140 gp). Banded agate (8 gp).

Description: He wears a violet deerstalker hat and violet clothes. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His hair is red and very short. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 3000 sp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born in a small plains village. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.