Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His hair is brown and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Born in the south to a Slave Trader, Rurik learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He's also a talented Jeweler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears bulky green painted plate armor. Her red hair is lengthy. Her half smiles and black eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the east to a Apothecary, Uzza learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Apothecary for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a engraver again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he usually wears his brown robe and has his halberd always slung over his shoulder. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Morgran was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Bonds: Family, Enemies, Slave, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a red coat with white slacks, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His tied-back hair is red. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Moss agate (9 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a fancy blue dress. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with her Miller mother left her crippled. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Greedy, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Arannis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Banded agate (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Hematite (14 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 brass crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her white fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Through the years after Trail was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Trail's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

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. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. 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. Eva fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp).