Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He comes from a rich western family. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Arnold has worked very hard to control his curse. 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 retire the richest man in the west

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

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Moss agate (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Heward is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 11000 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a green feathered hat and green clothes. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Courier hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple grey robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Stylist who has hired him part-time. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Cartwright they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Stylist, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1600 sp.