Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are gray.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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 money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 80 pp. Onyx (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. He has done his best to style his lavender fur to look like a famous performer. His yellow eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. With bright golden hair. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Server arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Susannah alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She found a children's book about a Tiefling Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Astaro fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1500 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: She is renowned for her bright grey dresses and hats. She carries with her a set of shortspears on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Millicent was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Navigator. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her silver crest up. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Junk Dealer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries with him a set of warhammers, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Family, In love. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear brown tank tops with violet pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and kukris. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Painter for hire.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 pp. White pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.