Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'8". He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shield. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp. Moss agate (14 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has wavy silver hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'7" when asserting herself. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a simple blue robe with violet stripes complete with hood. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly swords and shields. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A freak accident while working with his Knight father left him crippled. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a large violet jacket. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Cecily is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 260 gp. Obsidian (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf. He wears his gray fur down. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Roge embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp).