Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He has moderate length golden hair. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2900 gp.

Description: He typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is golden and very short. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 900 pp. Moss agate (6 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Obsidian (6 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, pastel shirt, and blue tie. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a Servant, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Expand his business; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. White pearl (120 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. He wears his chestnut hair up. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His first spouse was a Barkeep, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Barkeep they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Map Maker, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears long strands of ruby and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.