Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1900 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Naal was born with his father's beautiful face. Naal 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. Naal 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. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 900 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. He wears his blonde hair down. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Navigator. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His first spouse was a Priest, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 sp. Star rose quartz (80 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this western man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has brown hair. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Iolite (50 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.