Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tan collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is golden and curly. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Paelias was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his hammer, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Trym is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the south to a Actor, Trym learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Trym has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2300 gp. Black opal (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a red shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and black pants. Her red hair is wavy and long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'9" when asserting himself. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, green shirt, and grey tie. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her parents enrolled her in a Fighter school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large white jacket. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His black hair is long and unkept. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Krimmon is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has worked as a Carter like his father before him.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 19000 sp. Banded agate (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. After a long history of fighting, Nimble and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Matilda was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly morningstars and longbows. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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, Lucan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Lucan was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Lucan 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. Lucan 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).