Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is chestnut and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is an amazing painter.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Sensitive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (14 gp).

Description: He wears a pastel wide-brimmed hat and pastel clothes. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Performer profession.

History: Theriatis hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. A gifted student he started as a Performer, but he got bored and became a Shipwright. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge; and doesn't want to be a shipwright and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Heian was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 10000 sp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Black opal (1500 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.