Description: This malnourished man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Skak grew up listening to his father's many stories. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, violet shirt, and white tie. His hair is chestnut and curly. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Cairn was born the youngest of three triplets. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

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 his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a tan small hat and tan clothes. He wears his white crest down. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A friendly and beautiful Dragonborn, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Azzakh was born with his mother's beautiful face. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Being a Server 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Debt, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. He sports a flattop hair cut. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jade (160 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.