Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is chestnut and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 95. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student he started as a Barkeep, but he got bored and became a Bricklayer. He tends to his Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and to be a barkeep again

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1700 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has shaved his head bald. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Heian abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His red hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Efferil was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bowyer. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 350 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'4" and wears a blue costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. 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. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 gp. Peridot (60 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Jet (50 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Soveliss is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3200 gp.