Description: This eastern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has wavy black hair. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Onyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull tan iron scale mail. His hair is red and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Caeldrim is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Gifted from a young age, Caeldrim studied abroad. Through the years after Caeldrim was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Caeldrim's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Moss agate (10 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His hair is blonde and curly. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sage who has hired him part-time. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sage arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Miner. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2400 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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. Aelar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 290 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His brown hair is long and unkept. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.