Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise black.

Personality: He is a Sailor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Damakos hails from a village terrorized by illithids. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and to be a jeweler again

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Nalral speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Nalral 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 worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts, and carries shields. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Gimble was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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. Gimble fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Chalcedony (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away; and doesn't want to be a map maker and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a pastel coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He comes from a rich western family. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Sard (50 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp).