Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His blonde hair is still thick. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. A true patriot, Berrian would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Scribe work with an outfit from a few towns over. Scribe work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. 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: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Rich, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Rael was born the youngest of three triplets. One day when Rael was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Rael was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 110000 cp. Carnelian (50 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 8000 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Amber (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man has the majority of his body covered in plate and is in decent physical shape. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and doesn't want to be a sage and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 170 pp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He worked as a nervous Soapmaker and found it very stressful. He struck the Soapmaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.