Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is short and chestnut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 900 gp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Amber (100 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he very much looks the part of a Performer. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has achieved small success as a Performer.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 60 pp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a quarterstaff on his belt. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair is cut short. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly falchions and greataxes. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Layabout business.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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: He has decided he is irredeemable; 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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with pastel slacks. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. A true patriot, Naill would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 180 pp.