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. He wears his cinnamon fur up. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Spear grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 210 pp. Black pearl (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gray eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Eberk 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 Eberk. 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: Many illithids want him driven away; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her quarterstaff with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Silver ewer (50 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Server they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Shoemaker, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This southern man wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is blue and very short. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He became a Jeweler soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new jeweler responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is physically well-built. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson white hat.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: The child of a Hunter, who enjoyed hunting, Arha was taken on many hunting expeditions. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She is portly but not overly obese. Her crest is gold, silky, and of moderate length. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Selfish, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1600 pp. Carnelian (20 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Sard (20 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Jet (110 gp). Amber (110 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.