Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears just a black suit. His white hair is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his flail with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Merchant. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Weaver they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Barber, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries with him a set of halberds, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Drogo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.