Description: This late middle aged man typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Varis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Varis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Varis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 gp. Moonstone (50 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Amber (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He likes to wear violet tank tops with tan pants. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: To be a Locksmith again; and balancing his hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a green collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears just a brown suit. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is cut close to his head. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 900 gp. Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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 son.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 gp.