Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, grey shirt, and tan tie. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Burgell was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Ront lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple black robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He has brown eyes and a black hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a tanner and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is short and white. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Silver ewer (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.