Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Ruler, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 10000 cp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She comes from a rich western family. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Soapmaker. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many goblins want him driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 11000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp).

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. His hair is blue and very short. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Through the years after Ekemon was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Ekemon's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'0" when asserting himself. He wears his brown hair up. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears dull green sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed longbow, just in case. He wears a colorful flower in his silver crest. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Donaar was born with his mother's beautiful face. Donaar was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Gardener. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Violet garnet (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a fancy green suit. His hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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, Alvyn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.