Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears an entirely white suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Traki hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp).

Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his right hand. His hair is silver and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

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. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His tied-back hair is red. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Baker who has hired him part-time. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Baker. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Bonds: Has a crush, Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 gp. Jet (90 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and tends to wear a violet poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Citrine (50 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Mindartis speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Painter, but he was a colossal failure. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Slave Trader for hire.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 190 pp. Red spinel (90 gp).