Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear pastel tank tops with green pants. His gray fur is thinning but still full. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Edge was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. A true patriot, Boddynock would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Boddynock alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Nicholas was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Nicholas's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Stacee was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. The war was a terrible time for her, and Hrathy does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gifted student she started as a Painter, but she got bored and became a Blacksmith. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born to a Fortune-teller, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Obsidian (9 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). White pearl (130 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. His fur is short and cinnamon. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the north were limited. After a long history of fighting, Lone and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Jet (40 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Amethyst (40 gp).