Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black hair is cut short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Zook never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a white costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her ears are large.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Alexandre enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

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. Through the years after Alexandre was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Alexandre's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Alexandre and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He takes great joy in being the best Locksmith in town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. 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. Gildmak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold music box (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp).

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Gillyd was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears professional attire. She wears her red hair up. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a Gardener, her mother struggled to pay the bills. As a very small child her family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. Her father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect her and cast a teleportation spell that whisked her away. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is typically in his Beggar uniform. His white hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

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 is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born in the north. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Beggar. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 900 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Malachite (6 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He has no hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Tiefling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tiefling doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 130 pp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).