Description: This tall, slender man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Nicholas was born with his father'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 dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fletcher. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Fletcher for hire.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Diggory was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has blue eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Gardener for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.