Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear flannel, and is pretty ugly. His hair is blonde and very short. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears dull white sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. His head has been shaved. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Diggory liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Holy water. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hugh grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Golden pearl (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman and is in decent physical shape. His hair is black and very short. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Bertram hails from a village terrorized by illithids. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. 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: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He likes to wear blue tank tops with black pants. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Thomas was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp.