Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. His white unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a Assassin, his father struggled to pay the bills. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Malachite (4 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Hematite (4 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He keeps his blue crest in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Norkruuth was born with his mother's beautiful face. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Norkruuth never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a simple black robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His silver hair is cut short. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Veit was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Veit decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1600 gp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp).

Description: This man prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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 is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40000 cp. Black pearl (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.