Description: 5'5" and muscular, this southern man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a great chef.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He worked as a nervous Hunter and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Hunter.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 pp. Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. 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: Varis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To protect his home; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 80 pp. Banded agate (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 90000 cp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He carries a battered scythe and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Thamior grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fire opal (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a great chef.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Jade (150 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.