Description: He wears baggy green pantaloons and a violet scarf. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his blonde hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats, and carries kukris. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. He carries with him a set of shortbows, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Richard grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Richard. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 sp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp).

Description: He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with green slacks. He carries a battered axe and tarnished quarterstaff as well. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Frederick fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a tan vest and prefers red and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, he is not a threatening figure. His silver hair is cut short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Carter profession.

History: He was born in the east. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Courier responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.