Description: This late middle aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is baby faced.

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. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Himo was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Himo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears bulky black painted plate armor. His silver hair is long and unkept. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born in the west to a Mortician, Lamlis learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has worked as a Mortician like his father before him.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: This man wears a simple black robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his right hand. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Map Maker they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Detective, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 50000 cp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this eastern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Naeris hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Naeris was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His hair is short and red. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. After months of barely getting by, Hadarai managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp).