Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his bronze crest up. His ears are large.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Wants to work out more often; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Amber (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He bought a halberd and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. His hair is brown and curly. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Barakas was born with his mother's beautiful face. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Barakas fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has worked as a Soapmaker like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 cp. Jet (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Standing 6'6", this man usually wears his pastel robe and has his spear always slung over his shoulder. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are yellow and catlike.

Personality: Windy is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. The war was a terrible time for him, and Windy does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.