Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a halberd, but if one is not available she will default to her greatsword. She keeps her long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dragonborn conditions. Being a Scribe 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 is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'0" and muscular, this southern woman wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. She wears her silver hair up. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Carlin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 260 pp. Coral (110 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a white costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Az-Rans's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. After a long history of fighting, Az-Rans and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is content; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 pp. Iolite (50 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Amber (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a blue vest and prefers grey and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly quarterstaffs and bastard swords. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Farmer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and 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

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 39000 sp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull tan iron scale mail. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She refers to her adoptive mother 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: Falkrunn was born the youngest of three triplets. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Falkrunn never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her red hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a Priest, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Joan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 10000 cp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. A gifted student he started as a Barkeep, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. He tends to his Herbalist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.