Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Scribe. He's also a talented Miner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). White pearl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this southern woman wears tattered old clothes. She has slicked back black hair. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Mella hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mella grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mella. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy scarlet crest. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bowyer. He has a hunchback. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Coral (120 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His brown hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Raam lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 70000 cp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born in the north. Bolhild was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Crown-heir. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her scarlet crest is singed and shortened. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 2. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Amber (50 gp).