Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He is portly but not overly obese. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is cut short. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Lamlis was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Lamlis decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Moonstone (40 gp). Sard (40 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. White pearl (80 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). White opal (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is renowned for his bright black suits and hats, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Fisher but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2800 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands 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 brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).