Description: This southern man is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 sp. 4 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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 seems to be bored by most things; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 11000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 38. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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: Many illithids want him driven away; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 22000 sp. Zircon (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is physically well-built. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He refers to his adoptive father 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 born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 47000 sp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A small bag of saffron. (60 gp).