Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with red slacks. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving William alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Rose (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears bulky white painted plate armor. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Armorer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His white hair is thinning but still full. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Peridot (30 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears an eyepatch.

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. Alexandre is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has shaved his head bald. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Military, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 700 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.