Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'2". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a greataxe. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aelar is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: 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: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: To be a Baker again; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 280 pp. Peridot (20 gp). White opal (600 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mercenary. 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a large brown jacket. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 pay off his debts; and he is greedy

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.