Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. After a long history of fighting, Gerald and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 34000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is cut short. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Gerard alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with brown slacks. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the west to a Cook, Raymond learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Mason, but he got bored and became a Cook. He became a Cook soon after.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

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

Possessions: 12000 cp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Sage profession.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp).