Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. His white hair is knotted and matted. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

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 will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this southern woman wears tattered old clothes. She has slicked back black hair. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Mella hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mella grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mella. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy scarlet crest. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bowyer. He has a hunchback. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Coral (120 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His brown hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Raam lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 70000 cp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born in the north. Bolhild was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Crown-heir. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her scarlet crest is singed and shortened. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 2. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Amber (50 gp).

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Oriff was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Mercenary, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mercenary and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has moderate length red hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aramil is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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, Aramil is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.