Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and he perpetually has his trident ready. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Bather, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cook.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of amethyst and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His chestnut hair is still thick. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 Layabout. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. Citrine (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a red coat with white slacks. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Addict. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 4'1", this man dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a green coat with white slacks. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Gardain was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Revenge; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.