Description: This man is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, black shirt, and white tie. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He very much looks the part of a Mason. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has no hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He got into the Mason business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Dyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 14000 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Bather first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Bather hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 west. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 5000 sp. Fire opal (500 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gardain hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 gp.