Description: This northern man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Everard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the north. Everard was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Knight. He has worked as a Knight like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 70 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 26000 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Thomas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. He tends to his Layabout job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new layabout responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His blonde hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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. Roland fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 700 gp. Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp.