Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears just a pastel suit. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. A friendly and beautiful Gnome, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Cockaby was born with his father's beautiful face. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting illithids, the young Cockaby began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 pp. Iolite (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Jade (70 gp). Sard (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Blue diamond (6000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat and is in decent physical shape. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gormogord studied abroad. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Many giants want him driven away; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He keeps his rusty crest in a pixie cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. 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, Dadalan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears long strands of ruby and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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, Eiravel is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 120 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.