Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is red and very short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Theodoric was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Cleric, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Cleric in service of a powerful lord somewhere. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is short and silver. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a green tunic with pastel highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has gold crest. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has no hair. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Aym hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Aym alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp. Emerald (1400 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Sard (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Everard was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Everard decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished lance as well. His hair is short and black. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a Seamstress, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 26000 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears professional attire. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Norman was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. 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: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Audhild enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Audhild was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Audhild's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.