Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Rangrim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has no hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eran fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He got into the Bather business at a young age. 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 Bather. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a hunter again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Silver pearl (110 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a tan scarf. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Adrik is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age her mother died while driving off some illithids. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in scythe use. 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. Drenna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 370 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Iados was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Iados decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp. Blue sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mortician. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Zepar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mortician hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a green coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head, and is pretty ugly. His hair is cut close to his head. His white eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker green hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. 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 is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Tana was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.