Description: This northern man wears a tan collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is short and golden. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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, Roland is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and black pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has amber eyes.

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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 19000 sp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Body Guard born in the past three hundred years. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born in the east. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. A true patriot, Frederick would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a tan shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. 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 greedy; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (1100 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp).