Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing a long, yellow cloak. He has shaved his head bald. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Roland alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He usually wears his tan robe and has his ceremonial dagger always slung over his shoulder. His tied-back hair is black. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He takes great joy in being the best Courier in town.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Courier.

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

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 12000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

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

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp. Jasper (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: 6'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carter. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Carter.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 40000 cp. Onyx (40 gp).