Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears professional attire. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has blue eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Paelias was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Military, Debt. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scythe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Quarion hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears his brown hair down. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Naill was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Eye agate (4 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.