Description: An older man who wears an entirely violet suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, he is not a threatening figure. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Balam was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (50 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries with him a set of greataxes, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has bronze crest. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Baradad was born with his father's beautiful face. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Locksmith 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 feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Malachite (13 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He carries with him a set of rapiers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His copper crest is long and unkept. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 110000 cp. Hematite (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his small tan hat.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.