Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He has a hunchback. His hair is chestnut and curly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Coral (120 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His first spouse was a Mortician, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A 5'2" western man, he tends to wear a large yellow jacket. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and he has a crush on the local interpreter

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This northern man wears a worn and beaten armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 sp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp).