Description: 3'3" and muscular, this eastern man wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ribbles fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is chestnut and very short. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mamnen grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (90 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt, and he perpetually has his bastard sword ready. His black hair is braided into rings. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Thamuz was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 390 pp.

Description: This eastern man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Thorin took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.