Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'7" and wears a yellow shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and yellow pants. He has no hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Dreali was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Dreali never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 pp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.