Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears pastel robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a club, but if one is not available he will default to his rapier. His head has been shaved. He has green eyes and a pastel hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He wears his white hair down. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Paelias will drive conversation. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Mundane. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears bulky grey painted plate armor and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 120 pp. Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull black iron scale mail. He is portly but not overly obese. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Racist, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.