Description: This exceptionally lanky man has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. He has no hair. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Norman was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting goblins, the young Ernest began to lead the lost caravan. 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 goblins want him driven away; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he dresses like a well dressed Beggar does. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Guy was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Guy was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Guy decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Beggar for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears just a black suit. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Manfred is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He carries a battered sai and tarnished warhammer as well. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Odo hails from a village terrorized by drow. At a young age his mother died while driving off some drow. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in warhammer use. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Human compassion; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac, Racist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.