Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Barrister father left him crippled. After months of barely getting by, Tharivol managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'10" and dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with white slacks. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (80 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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 the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1400 gp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: Mindartis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Servant. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.