Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull white iron scale mail. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes dart from person to person.

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. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Barakas grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Opinionated, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she tends to wear a large green jacket. Her crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He stands about 4'10" and wears a simple yellow robe with grey stripes complete with hood. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. Kody is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 30000 cp. 3 Thunderstones. 2 Smokesticks. 2 Holy water.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Gardener. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 30 pp. White opal (400 gp). Sard (20 gp). Coral (160 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sailor and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and black pants, and he perpetually has his monstrous two handed axe ready. His orange fur has been sun bleached extensively. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His black fur is smooth and relatively long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Pelt was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shoemaker. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Stylist they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Shoemaker, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An older man who wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a lance, but if one is not available he will default to his scythe, he is not a threatening figure. His silver hair is cut short. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Stableman. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He's also a talented Navigator, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp.