Description: This man is very fat, and wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. His hair is brown and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

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. He worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. He tends to his Shepherd job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, he is not a threatening figure. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Varis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 pp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he likes to wear green tank tops with white pants, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Eiravel's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 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.