Description: This late middle aged man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and brown. His silver eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's in love; and he has a crush on the local sage

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the west to a Baker, Thamuz learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Baker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Baker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is pastel, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Loopmottin speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: Loopmottin lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Loopmottin alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Layabout

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

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering his clean studded leather. His beige fur has been sun bleached extensively. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is an amazing painter.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is physically well-built. His scarlet crest is greasy and uncared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Fax was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Fax was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Fax's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 13th 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. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has shaved his head bald. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gennal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gennal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 5000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: He was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. A true patriot, Orla would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Armorer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Orla managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 70 pp. Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Tanglefoot bags.