Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a white coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is golden and very short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in a small plains village. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Architect hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 3'9" and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with white slacks. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'10". He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. His first spouse was a Bather, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 7000 sp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Hadarai was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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 Farmer. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Tourmaline (100 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Buckler.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Ea and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. She has a hunchback. Her white hair is cut short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Hugolina was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Masseuse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This eastern man wears brown trousers with grey and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is cut short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.