Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and red pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is baby faced.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aldous studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Tanner. He struck the Tanner job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new tanner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Simon alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He is portly but not overly obese. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2100 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (20 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His black hair is singed and shortened. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Dean was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His silver hair is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Rolf studied abroad. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Rolf alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 7000 sp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Banded agate (4 gp).