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 black hair up. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a longsword on his belt, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 80 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has gray fur. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She is a Deep Scion in disguise. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 270 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She has a hunchback. Her brown hair is well kept. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. The war was a terrible time for her, and Alice does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Alice grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Alice was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 30 gp. Golden pearl (50 gp).

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears his silver hair up. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Umpen is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Umpen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Umpen took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sword and armor he uses now. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his father before him.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This woman wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She has shaved her head bald. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. Rose (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears a violet vest and prefers green and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is short and silver. He has hazel eyes and a violet hat with a green feather.

Personality: Thervan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

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: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.