Description: He wears dull brown sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed axe, just in case. He is physically well-built. His red hair is still thick. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Efferil fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). White pearl (130 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a black collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Arannis was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and blue robe with the hood down. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Erdan was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Erdan decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 40 pp. Iolite (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Jade (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'1" northern man, he is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

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 fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Hadarai was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20000 cp. Eye agate (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Jet (60 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an entirely violet suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.