Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

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: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 80000 cp. Star ruby (1100 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She has blue eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ermina was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is long and silver with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Rurik was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rurik fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Laborer; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1100 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.