Description: Standing 5'8", this man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears violet trousers with red and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, marred by chocolates. His chestnut hair is cut short. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a flattop hair cut. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the west to a Spy, Raymond learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He's in love; and to be a fletcher again

Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rose (20 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with black slacks. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His ears are large.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Anselm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Anselm took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up kukri and armor he uses now. He has worked as a Stableman like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 sp.