Description: This late middle aged man wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes and is in decent physical shape. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Server. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Nelkin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Nelkin began to lead the lost caravan. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and tiefling compassion

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He wears his blonde hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100000 cp.

Description: This western woman is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Reddlepop lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her childhood dream was to be a Dyer, but she was a colossal failure. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: She wears a simple blue robe with violet stripes complete with hood. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 10 pp. Violet garnet (1400 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp).