Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a hunchback. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Fonkin's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born into a rich family. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south 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 is greedy; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern man is dressed in an above average manner. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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, Raer is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 320 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with green slacks. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His white eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: He is a Painter first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Military, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is portly but not overly obese. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 49. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Mortician hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Helen is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Healer business at a young age. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Healer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Healer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has worked as a Healer like her father before her.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 120 gp.