Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Paelias hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting illithids, the young Paelias began to lead the lost caravan. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Peridot (40 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a red tunic with blue highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is physically well-built. His white hair is knotted and matted. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jade (120 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). White opal (600 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. 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, Eiravel is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Eiravel was born the youngest of three triplets. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Stylist they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Performer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 pp.