Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it, marred by sweets. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing a tight pastel one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His black fur has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Skirt was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.