Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Merchant who has hired him part-time. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple brown robe with grey stripes complete with hood. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. 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, Kody 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. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Kody was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a axe on her belt. She is physically well-built. Her black hair is knotted and matted. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She comes from a rich western family. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 260 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries lances. She has wavy red hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Bardryn enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his grey robe. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting illithids, the young Everard began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 sp.