Description: He is a mite stocky and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is chestnut and very short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 10000 cp. 2 Thunderstones. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 7 Acid flasks. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered blue hat.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Raer was born with his mother's beautiful face. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Raer alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He tends to his Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 90 pp. Star ruby (700 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His tied-back hair is blonde. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born in the west to a Hunter, Theren learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with his Glassblower mother left him crippled. He's also a talented Glassblower, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

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

Description: He wears just a white suit. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and maces. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Dayereth enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Carter, who enjoyed hunting, Dayereth was taken on many hunting expeditions. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 11000 sp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished morningstar as well. He wears his blonde hair down. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Dayereth hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (14 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.