Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has wavy black hair. She has silver eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1 Superior lock.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Randal studied abroad. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He 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 revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 16000 cp. Carnelian (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a bow on her belt. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Therlin grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is short and red. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He wears dull brown sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. His black hair is long and unkept. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Adrik was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. 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 will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Torgga was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. She is baby faced.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Tana was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver pearl (100 gp). Emerald (800 gp).

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Rael managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe, and carries hand crossbows. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Kansif is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Barkeep business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Barkeep responsibilities is difficult; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 110 gp.