Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a black armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His black hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ekemon will drive conversation. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Ekemon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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 recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tethren studied abroad. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1800 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His black fur is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Spring was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Junk Dealer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: He wears a simple brown robe with white stripes complete with hood. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His crest is white and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heskan studied abroad. Heskan 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. Heskan decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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. Being a Sage kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3000 sp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male wears baggy grey pantaloons and a red scarf. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Koeth is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north to a Priest, Koeth learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Koeth never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Job, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 240 gp.