Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull black iron scale mail, and carries hand crossbows. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Cook profession.

History: He was born in the west. He worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. He struck the Mortician job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp).

Description: 4'5" and muscular, this southern man likes to wear blue tank tops with violet pants. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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: Vonbin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Detective. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Sindri was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Actor. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a black armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Cairn was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 30000 cp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He got into the Carter business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Carter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Carter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 130 gp.