Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Architect 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: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Varis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears just a white suit. He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Tharivol was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Tharivol decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1400 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Amber (100 gp).

Description: This man wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. 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: Retire the richest man in the east; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Malachite (11 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is physically well-built. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Ivellios was born the youngest of three triplets. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.