Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the south to a Performer, Efferil learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He tends to his Performer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, In love. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 gp. Malachite (8 gp).

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to be a cartwright again

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 pp. Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and silver. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a great chef.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Jeweler mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears yellow trousers with blue and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Fivin grew up listening to his mother's many stories. 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 drifted from career to career and currently works as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 6000 sp.