Description: This light-skinned female is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Star rose quartz (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Azurite (9 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 5000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Stannor enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Actor, who enjoyed hunting, Stannor was taken on many hunting expeditions. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Secretive, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. Sard (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Through the years after Oloric was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Oloric's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Oloric and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Lazy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his black hair up. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Alston was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and revenge

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 3000 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. Her crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Tatyan was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he likes to wear yellow tank tops with tan pants. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 100. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Naill never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a blue collared shirt and pastel pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'3" when asserting himself. He has a very tight haircut. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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 Mortician. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Religious, Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 240 pp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. 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 will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Suhnae was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 90 gp.