Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 500 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears just a black suit. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries a battered longsword and tarnished greatsword as well. He has no hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Heian abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: White pearl (60 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Coral (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aust 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 Aust. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Beiro isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Beiro lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.