Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears his scarlet crest down. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 28000 cp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in a small forest village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Blacksmith for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp. Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: An older man who tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, he is not a threatening figure. His chestnut hair is still thick. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a tan deerstalker hat and tan clothes. His blonde hair is still thick. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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, Mindartis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Mindartis hails from a village terrorized by giants. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. 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: He's looking for his big break; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Banded mail.