Description: A 4'9" eastern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Heian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Heian was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is short and golden. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 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.

Description: This late middle aged man wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is yellow, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his broad black hat.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Caeldrim is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with his Map Maker father left him crippled. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2000 gp.