Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His fur is cinnamon and very short. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Cask was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His beige fur is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor, Family, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At some point he was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He is an epitome of beauty. He has auburn hair. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 gp. Malachite (8 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Chrysoprase (20 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp).