Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Painter for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (11 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is auburn and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a tanner again

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his golden hair up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Iolite (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a black and grey robe with the hood down. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. The war was a terrible time for him, and Roland does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. 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 Knight. Being a Knight 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 decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top red hat.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 78. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is an amazing painter.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Lance was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.