Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries with him a set of falchions on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He wears his red hair up. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Umpen reached his early adolescence his Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Umpen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This man wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his white crest down. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Baradad was born with his father's beautiful face. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp. Jet (80 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: This man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. He keeps his long white fur kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he is greedy

Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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, Krimmon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.