Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and shortspears. His red hair is braided into rings. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 180 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A 5'9" northern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. He has styled his cinnamon fur well, parting it to the right. His copper eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Two Llamas was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a red shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and tan pants. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Vlorn will drive conversation. 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, Vlorn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Vlorn lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a red costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A freak accident while working with her Barrister father left her crippled. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. At some point she was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 30 gp.