Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Shipwright mother left him crippled. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110 pp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 16th 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 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: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is long and golden with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small pastel clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Shane was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He tends to wear a large tan jacket. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 19th 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Eye agate (8 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp).