Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has shaved his head bald. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Quarion abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. With wild silver hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting giants, the young Adrie began to lead the lost caravan. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 30000 cp. Hematite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fancy black suit, and carries maces. He sports a flattop crest cut. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Dadalan was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Baker born in the past three hundred years. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Baker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He carries with him a set of rapiers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He has violet eyes and a blue hat with a green feather.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1300 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp).