Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears professional attire. His hair is dark red and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 500 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears professional attire. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Brown diamond (5000 gp). Coral (160 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A 3'4" northern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His tied-back hair is silver. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Antitoxin. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gimgen grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a blue vest and prefers green and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His gold crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Jet (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.