Description: 5'0" and muscular, this southern man wears a tan wide-brimmed hat and tan clothes. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this eastern man dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He got into the Ruler business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Assassin, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 180 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a large tan jacket. He has auburn hair. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Efferil was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a grey tunic with white highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Dreali was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Laborer. He's also a talented Cartwright, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to be a cartwright again

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tattered old clothes. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Arannis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jet (90 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp).