Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aelar studied abroad. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. He has shaved his head bald. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His childhood dream was to be a Guard, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Tourmaline (80 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Rose (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.