Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She is an epitome of beauty. With wild silver hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. 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: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the south. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. 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. Vanchu fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bricklayer. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Ulblyn abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Fire opal (800 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His ears are large.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He got into the Carpenter business at a young age. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: To be a Bricklayer again; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Aerdeth was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aerdeth's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. She tends to her Layabout job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 pp. Violet garnet (300 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Bricklayer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He is portly but not overly obese. His red crest is heavily combed to the left. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Bharash was raised in a hard working conservative environment. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He's also a talented Sailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Erdan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Erdan was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mayor. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Jet (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Sard (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.