Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Through the years after Heskan was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Heskan's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears red trousers with brown and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His ears are large.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Damien's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Damien lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (90 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears professional attire. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her parents enrolled her in a Commoner school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a grey shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Barendd hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Barendd was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents enrolled him in a Ranger school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. She carries with her a set of clubs, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp.