Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His head has been shaved. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He married young, but lost his spouse to dire rats. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and he perpetually has his halberd ready. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He refers to his adoptive father 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: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Herbalist. He has worked as a Herbalist like his father before him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by his family; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a fancy grey suit. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Map Maker and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Halimath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Halimath alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Black pearl (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a fancy blue suit. His tied-back hair is auburn. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He's in love; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Sard (70 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Amber (100 gp).