Description: He wears a green shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sickle, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (40 gp). 1 Average lock. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a scimitar, but if one is not available he will default to his hammer. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Thervan hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Thervan alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Thervan was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Aerdeth was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Marshal hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears a mask on his face.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Assassin business.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Opinionated, Persistence. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 pp.