Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts. His silver hair is heavily combed to the right. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 5000 sp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Malachite (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His blue crest is singed and shortened. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He takes great joy in being the best Performer in town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Performer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and balancing his hectic life and new performer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, In love, Job, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 18000 sp. 7 Acid flasks.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, brown shirt, and green tie. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady white eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born into a rich family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Moss agate (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Emerald (1500 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He is a Hag in disguise. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. His addictions have taken their toll on his wallet, and he has found himself with a great deal of debt owed.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 120 gp.