Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He has a hunchback. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Stylist. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Alex hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new stylist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Miles was born with his mother's beautiful face. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Weaver work with an outfit from a few towns over. Weaver work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

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

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears grey trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the south to a Stableman, Bertram learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. 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: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.