Description: This southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Gifted from a young age, Cairn studied abroad. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available he will default to his scimitar. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Gennal hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Gennal was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull blue iron scale mail. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born in the west to a Shepherd, Krimmon learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, In love. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Coral (70 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Jet (70 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Eye agate (13 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.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is dark red, silky, and of moderate length. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 44000 sp.