Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears a black shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and tan pants. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Jet (150 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who usually wears his black robe and has his whip always slung over his shoulder, he is not a threatening figure. His white hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. After a long history of fighting, Varis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Moss agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spy. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.