Description: This late middle aged man dresses like a well dressed Bricklayer does and is in decent physical shape. His head has been shaved. His ears are large.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Tod lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student he started as a Bather, but he got bored and became a Bricklayer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 11000 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries with him a set of hammers on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Enialis grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly spears and hammers. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Sard (70 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Jasper (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His gold crest is lengthy. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a Doctor, his father struggled to pay the bills. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: This man has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His ears are large.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 370 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner, and she perpetually has her sickle ready. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in a small plains village. 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 now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. The war was a terrible time for him, and Simon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Simon lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Simon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears just a green suit and is in decent physical shape. His red hair is braided into rings. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: Pelaios speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is an amazing painter.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pelaios grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pelaios. Being a Marshal kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats, and is pretty ugly. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Senteq has worked very hard to control his curse. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.