Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. 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: To pay off his debts; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Spy

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with pastel slacks, marred by sweets. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. After coming to the age of reason, Theriatis took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 190 pp. Tourmaline (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

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. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dreali fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Jet (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hand crossbows and swords. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aerdeth wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Aerdeth was born with his mother's beautiful face. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aerdeth grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aerdeth. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His tied-back hair is red. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Uthemar was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 gp.