Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Voice breaks

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

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. His silver hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the west to a Sailor, Rael learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rael grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rael. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing a long, grey cloak. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and carries axes. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born to a Roofer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heian grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Heian. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Citrine (70 gp).