Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. Now he works as a writing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is short and white. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is black and very short. Her ears are large.

Personality: Margery speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Margery lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp.