Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Gardener 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: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 24000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Gerald was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and revenge

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He has black hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: The child of a Ploughman, who enjoyed hunting, Arnold was taken on many hunting expeditions. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears long strands of emerald and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker yellow hat.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Charles's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 greedy; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older man who dresses like a well dressed Stableman does, he is not a threatening figure. He has moderate length red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Stableman business.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stableman. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new stableman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.