Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull blue iron scale mail. His red hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

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. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Addict, Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is typically in his Merchant uniform, and is pretty ugly. His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He got into the Merchant business at a young age. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Nicholas alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Dilettante they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Merchant, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a fancy blue suit. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He comes from a rich western family. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. 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 terrified, and will act out of fear; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He is portly but not overly obese. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born into a rich family. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now owns his own business.

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

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care, marred by sweets. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. 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. Through the years after Geoffrey was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Geoffrey's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 8000 sp.