Description: He is lean but muscular and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is chestnut and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Terse, Hedonist, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Orc supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Miller work with an outfit from a few towns over. Miller work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Miller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is greedy; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Racist, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. He has wavy brown hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His first spouse was a Jeweler, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Jeweler they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Stableman, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Azurite (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Amber (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his black hair down. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has wavy brown hair. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He now owns his own business.

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

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 600 sp.