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 dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with black slacks. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1800 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Amber (160 gp). Zircon (20 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'7". He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new banker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Thervan reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. 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: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He worked as a nervous Sculptor and found it very stressful. He became a Sculptor soon after.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Malachite (7 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.