Description: He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. He is physically well-built. His hair is golden and curly. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 390 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: An older man who dresses like a well dressed Barber does, he is not a threatening figure. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a Detective, his father struggled to pay the bills. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barber. He struck the Barber job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Barber responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Engong isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Engong lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a blue scarf. His head has been shaved. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'5" when asserting herself. Her hair is short and dark red. Her silver eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ea fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.