Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His bronze crest is matted, messy, and big. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

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 disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Beggar

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

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears just a brown suit. His red fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Serpent grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). He tends to his Shipwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Star ruby (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Mordai never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 80 pp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born into a rich family. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. His dark red hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Nicor will drive conversation. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature morningstar.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears his blonde hair up. His ears are large.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a Butcher, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a tan tunic with brown highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. She wears her white hair up. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. After coming to the age of reason, Salanop took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. Her brown hair is cut short. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Herbalist they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Server, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Sard (70 gp).