Description: He wears just a white suit. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. After a long history of fighting, Justin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing a long, blue cloak. His black hair is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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, Hubert is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His golden hair is braided into rings. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Bernard was born with his father's beautiful face. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. Jasper (50 gp).

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is physically well-built. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Thomas's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears an entirely black suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.