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 red hair, when down, is lengthy. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Obsidian (12 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Carnelian (30 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Rael was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 390 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His red hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 10000 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Malachite (10 gp).

Description: A 5'4" eastern man, he wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple violet line shooting up and back down. He wears his red hair up. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Being a Butcher kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears an entirely grey suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Opinionated. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1300 gp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp).