Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears white trousers with green and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 220 pp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Coral (160 gp). Jasper (70 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born to a Glassblower, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 700 gp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).

Description: This man wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His green crest is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Hirrathak was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Baker. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Cory took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A freak accident while working with her Mercenary father left her crippled. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She is an epitome of beauty. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a great chef.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 has worked as a Actor like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1300 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.