Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a hunchback. His golden hair is lengthy. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 pp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Citrine (20 gp).

Description: He wears a blue coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has no hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He got into the Mason business at a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a pastel costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Cartwright. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 10000 sp. Tourmaline (110 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Banded agate (7 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are brown.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp).