Description: This late middle aged man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born to a Tanner, his father struggled to pay the bills. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gerard studied abroad. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He usually wears his brown robe and has his quarterstaff always slung over his shoulder. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mercenary 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: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a green collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is short and golden. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Arnold hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 26000 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and is pretty ugly. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).