Description: This late middle aged man wears dark leathers with embroidery and is in decent physical shape. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heward is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Detective father left him crippled. 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. Heward fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spice Merchant they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Jeweler, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 sp. Coral (100 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Eberk hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is portly but not overly obese. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has brown eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Tarak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'4", this woman is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. Her hair is black and curly. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Banded agate (7 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She has no hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born in the north. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. Her head has been shaved. She has brown eyes and a violet hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. 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: To prove her worth to the world; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. Onyx (50 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Onyx (50 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is cut short. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 sp. Tourmaline (60 gp). 6 Acid flasks.