Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and a wedding ring on his right hand. His black hair is thinning but still full. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sage business.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Ernest has worked very hard to control his curse. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Terse. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Jet (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Aldous lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Detective they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Server, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Family, Debt. Occupation: Server

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. Zircon (60 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 6'5". He wears a grey tunic with blue highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His head has been shaved. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 70. 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 can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Roland was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Roland 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 Roland. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and 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

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Golden pearl (110 gp). White pearl (110 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a tan tunic with black highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has hazel eyes and a tan hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Mercenary work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mercenary work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his trident with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Manfred was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Manfred's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1500 sp. 2 Acid flasks. 1 Thunderstones.