Description: He is lean but muscular and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 40000 cp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, William grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave 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 island due to the painful memories there. William took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up mace and armor he uses now. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. William fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. The war was a terrible time for him, and Peter does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Peter alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Peter was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting illithids, the young Odo began to lead the lost caravan. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 4000 sp.