Description: This western man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His clothes are grease stained in places. His auburn hair is still thick. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born in the west. Balimaar 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 210 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His black hair is braided into rings. He has gray eyes and a grey hat with a tan feather.

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. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Alston was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Standing 4'4", this man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. He wears his silver hair up. His ears are large.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears just a white suit. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length dark red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying east to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 pp. Pink diamond (5000 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Brown diamond (5000 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.