Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is long and black with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he has a crush on the local priest

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, In love, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Trym alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Trym was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A 4'5" southern man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Thorin lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Thorin has worked very hard to control his curse. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Insane, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a green shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and green pants, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Baern isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Baern 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 the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Hedonist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 190 gp. 3 Smokesticks.