Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shield with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Peren hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. One day when Erdan was young, his mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his mother dropped to the ground dead. His mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Erdan was heart-stricken from the event, and his father started working long hours to provde for them. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born in the west to a Baker, Nim learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Nim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nim decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 sp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Rolen lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 160 pp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1100 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp).