Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His green eyes peer out from beneath his broad black hat.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Lance hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Hubert alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has achieved small success as a Map Maker.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He tends to wear a large pastel jacket, and he perpetually has his bow ready. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Bernard was born the youngest of three triplets. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. Jet (70 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears a tan collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is white. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mortician. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mortician hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 11000 cp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He has gray eyes and a black hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.