Description: This malnourished woman typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. She wears her silver hair up. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many illithids want her driven away

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'9" and is dressed in an above average manner. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His beige fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 pp. Jasper (60 gp).

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and carries nunchakus. His hair is red and very short. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Carpenter born in the past three hundred years. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. 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 struck the Carpenter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is cut close to his head. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He bought a shortspear and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and doesn't want to be a butcher and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 sp.