Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses like a well dressed Guard does. He has a very tight haircut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Gifted from a young age, Naal studied abroad. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Paelias 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 Paelias. 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: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Jet (90 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 gp. Onyx (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Black opal (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears just a blue suit. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are amber and beady.

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 is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (60 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.