Description: This late middle aged man prefers to wear flannel and is in decent physical shape. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Locksmith but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. After a long history of fighting, Manfred and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a Scribe first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He's also a talented Priest, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, blue shirt, and brown tie. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Percival was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Percival was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 11000 cp. Sard (60 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by teas. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

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. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gunter 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. Gunter was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Body Guard. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gunter fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. Malachite (15 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Moonstone (40 gp).