Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. 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: Korfel hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 pp. Silver pearl (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his mace with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Aust lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and brown with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull violet iron scale mail. His hair is white and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the west. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Elven compassion.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Emerald (700 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).