Description: This eastern man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born to a Sage, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is auburn and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born in a small island village. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Antitoxin. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Everard will drive conversation. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.