Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has a hunchback. His hair is short and blonde. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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 born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 160 pp. Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp).

Description: This man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull violet iron scale mail, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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-brother.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Erevan grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Erevan. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 80 pp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is braided into rings. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He takes great joy in being the best Ruler in town.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears professional attire. He is an epitome of beauty. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 70 pp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Jade (80 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Erdan was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Erdan's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).