Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Quarion was born with his mother's beautiful face. Quarion was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Enemies, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has white hair. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Quarion isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. After a long history of fighting, Quarion and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 pp. Onyx (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Amber (70 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his left hand. His head has been shaved. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bounty Hunter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 5000 sp. Gold music box (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp).

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Azaki is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1400 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.