Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1200 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat, and he perpetually has his sword ready. He has no hair. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Halimath was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 800 pp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Moss agate (5 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, In love, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries with him a set of rapiers, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp. Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp).