Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a blue coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His auburn hair is cut short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Military, In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: He has a missing left arm. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He got into the Knight business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Soveliss lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'11". He wears a brown deerstalker hat and brown clothes, and his gloved hand is found clutching a club. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is content; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the east. When Rolen reached his early adolescence his Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 700 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Rose (50 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Peridot (50 gp).