Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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: He is greedy; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a violet vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her violet boots flare out at the collars. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Merchant profession.

History: Althaea was born with her mother's beautiful face. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She tends to her Mayor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1400 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). White opal (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Moonstone (20 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 tied-back hair is brown. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born to a Laborer, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Stannor fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1300 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Weaver. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has taken up work as a Weaver and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fancy black suit, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. A true patriot, Lûga would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born in the north. At a young age his mother died while driving off some gnolls. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in pickaxe use. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Lûga was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears an entirely white suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her face is scarred and worn.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Vanchu was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Spice Merchant. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a greataxe on her belt, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is silver and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the east. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). A small bag of saffron. (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.