Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: An older man who dresses like a well dressed Courier does, he is not a threatening figure. His head has been shaved. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 22. 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. 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 born into a rich family. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Courier job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'0" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a very tight haircut. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Raymond was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Debt. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a pastel shirt with thin black vertical stripes and blue pants. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished bow as well. His head has been shaved. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Roland was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bather. He has worked as a Bather like his father before him.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp.