Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears suspenders and red workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Ulblyn was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Ulblyn's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

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. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Gardener they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Dyer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 4000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a halberd, but if one is not available he will default to his bastard sword. He has a hunchback. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Alston's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Ploughman profession.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has worked as a Unemployed like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the north were limited. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He uses divination through singing.

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. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Oskar 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; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1600 sp.

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 hair is cut close to her head. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.