Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and many gnolls want him driven away

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She has worked as a Marshal like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the south to a Roofer, Melissa learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Roofer for hire.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 20 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 130 pp. Jade (100 gp). Amber (100 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Citrine (50 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Balimaar grew up listening to his father's many stories. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and balancing his hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Nogu was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Stableman. He's also a talented Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a guard again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a grey collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her brass crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Banded mail.