Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears baggy red pantaloons and a grey scarf. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. 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: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He worked as a nervous Ruler and found it very stressful. 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: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2700 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp).

Description: He wears tan trousers with brown and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries with him a set of axes, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His blonde hair is cut short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born in the south. 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. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 80 pp. Obsidian (15 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a hunchback. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a Armorer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1700 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'5" and tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His black hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. 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 a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His childhood dream was to be a Barrister, but he was a colossal failure. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Barrister again; and elven compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 110 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a trident on his belt. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.