Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He keeps his long brown fur kept up in a rat tail. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Korfel hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a tan tunic with white highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears his auburn hair up. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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, Trey is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Trey lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student he started as a Tailor, but he got bored and became a Ploughman. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Naeris was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His black fur is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 130 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp).