Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Dyer. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is greedy; and expand his business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an entirely black suit with red socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has wavy auburn hair. He has blue eyes and a black hat with a red feather.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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, Riardon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Riardon hails from a village terrorized by illithids. After coming to the age of reason, Riardon took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 pp. Canary diamond (2000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His white hair is knotted and matted. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and expand his business

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.