Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His head has been shaved. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 11000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears brown trousers with black and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her beige fur is matted, messy, and big. Her ears are large.

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. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2000 sp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a colorful flower in her red crest. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2000 gp. Obsidian (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She carries a battered warhammer and tarnished quarterstaff as well. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce black eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She got into the Scribe business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Animal Trainer, but she got bored and became a Scribe. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He carries with him a set of longswords on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Grûblik alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Bloodstone (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Iolite (80 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her copper crest is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 4000 cp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears just a white suit. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Philomena lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp).