Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is long and unkept. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the west to a Sage, Adelard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1100 sp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'11" and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To protect his home; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Mentor, Guardian. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 sp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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: Bertram was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a green vest and prefers black and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Wymar was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spy. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: 5'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a blue costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a Soapmaker, his father struggled to pay the bills. After coming to the age of reason, Richard took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 20 pp.