Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with tan slacks. His hair is auburn and very short. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Courier.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Job, In love. Occupation: Courier

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of a Barkeep, who enjoyed hunting, Srorthen was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants and is in decent physical shape. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: The child of a Bellfounder, who enjoyed hunting, Aelar was taken on many hunting expeditions. Aelar 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Aelar was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man very much looks the part of a Mercenary. His brown hair is braided into rings. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. The war was a terrible time for him, and Paelias does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his youth he was a Miller, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Paelias fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (16 gp).