Description: This western man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is still thick. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Kyle abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Bernard hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Carpenter for hire.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Enemies, Job, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Alex was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a blue tunic with white highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 14000 cp. 4 Acid flasks.