Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His blue hair is unkempt and raggedy. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Stylist, but he got bored and became a Sage. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2300 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the south to a Fletcher, Zaffrab learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He became a Fletcher soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 700 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear flannel. His blue hair is still thick. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Tanner born in the past three hundred years. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Morthos is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He worked as a nervous Tanner and found it very stressful. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Morthos never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, In love. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 180 gp.