Description: A 4'9" eastern man, he dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with tan slacks. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He has amber eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. 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 Performer. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has shaved his head bald. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Varis was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Through the years after Varis was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Varis's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing a long, grey cloak, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Being a Detective 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. He has no hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Fivin was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Fivin was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.