Description: This malnourished man wears professional attire. He has moderate length silver hair. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt and is in decent physical shape. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Gunter was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Forgetful. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Coral (150 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). 2 Smokesticks. 2 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: An older man who dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, he is not a threatening figure. He has moderate length silver hair. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older man who wears many layers of old clothing at all times, he is not a threatening figure. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He has hazel eyes and a white hat with a tan feather.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Frederick's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Frederick was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1100 sp.