Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He takes great joy in being the best Sailor in town.

History: Born to a Healer, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sailor. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Hobart was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Expand his business; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her white crest down. Her half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears brown trousers with white and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: He is mildly Human supremacist, though he does not identify as such. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and doesn't want to be a fortune-teller and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1700 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Iolite (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: The child of a Sellsword, who enjoyed hunting, Abalaba was taken on many hunting expeditions. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Being a Server kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 gp. Black opal (400 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp).

Description: He usually wears his blue robe and has his trident always slung over his shoulder. He carries with him a set of tridents on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has wavy black hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sapply fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp).

Description: Standing 3'8", this man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length red hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). 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: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 15000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His long yellow fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Skirt hails from a village terrorized by drow. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2300 gp. Silver pearl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Azurite (15 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has golden hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Guard work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She wears an entirely green suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her red hair is lengthy. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Courier business.

History: She is a Doppelganger in disguise. When Pyra reached her early adolescence her Tiefling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 cp.