Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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 Mason. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp. Red garnet (40 gp).

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries bows. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Frederick is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 29000 cp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes and grey pants. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: The child of a Jeweler, who enjoyed hunting, Ernest was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears violet trousers with grey and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has wavy silver hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. Amethyst (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Norman grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Norman. Being a Butcher kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Lazy, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.