Description: An older man who wears bulky tan painted plate armor, he is not a threatening figure. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is black and very short. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Synthrin never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, In love, Debt. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 21000 cp.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Susannah was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bookbinder. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Malachite (16 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this western woman wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. 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: Ilga lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is grey, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Painter born in the past three hundred years. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull green iron scale mail. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Unemployed business.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Gruk was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. Violet garnet (1400 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gerard grew up listening to his father's many stories. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.