Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a Sailor, his father struggled to pay the bills. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Henry fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and red pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has no hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Lilli was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When Lilli reached her early adolescence her Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1100 gp. Star ruby (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green vest and prefers red and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Butcher for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 70 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp).