Description: This late middle aged man wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars and is in decent physical shape. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears tattered old clothes. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: Gifted from a young age, Hubert studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 900 gp. Hematite (13 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Lewis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Animal Trainer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Frederick was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Frederick fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 50000 cp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp.