Description: This man wears a green tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his left hand. His dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Paymon was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To protect his home; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He wears a violet vest and prefers brown and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He carries with him a set of falchions, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tim grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Tim. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Beatrice lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants. His scarlet crest is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished man wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He has no hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Disguise kit.