Description: This man wears a white vest and prefers grey and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Efferil alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is portly but not overly obese. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. He has shaved his head bald. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces O like U

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

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born in a small island village. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1200 gp.

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 blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Slave Trader who has hired him part-time. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aelar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 230 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).