Description: Standing 6'6", this man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Cressel hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 3'4" southern man, he wears a white shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and white pants. He has wavy silver hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. His addictions have taken their toll on his wallet, and he has found himself with a great deal of debt owed.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Debt, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 200 sp. Moss agate (10 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He prefers to wear flannel, marred by sweets. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Kody hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 cp.