Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is short and brown. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Anselm is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Anselm lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears baggy blue pantaloons and a brown scarf. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Wymar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'4" when asserting himself. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his top red hat.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 28000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. His red hair is cut short. He has green eyes.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with his god.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Navigator. He has achieved small success as a Navigator.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 700 sp.