Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Arnold was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and usually wears his blue robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Peter never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his red robe. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a great chef.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Antitoxin. 1 Holy water. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, and is pretty ugly. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Courier.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).