Description: This late middle aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a Stylist, his father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Gildmak abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is long and brown with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Banker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. 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-brother.

History: He comes from a rich western family. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and to reunite with his absent mother

Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Average lock.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has wavy auburn hair. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Vani was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10 pp. Silver pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a trident on her belt. She is physically well-built. She has red fur. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. The war was a terrible time for her, and Smoking does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30 gp.