Description: This tall, slender man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Roland hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Roland was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Obsidian (9 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She carries with her a set of pickaxes on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Ekk enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the east to a Mayor, Ekk learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has achieved small success as a Mayor.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She is physically well-built. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 sp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Balifra was born on a far western island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dyer. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balifra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 20 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is lengthy. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.