Description: This southern man is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Jet (100 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Marshal who has hired him part-time. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Pirithin hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. 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: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'9" and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Knight. 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, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Arannis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. He became a Knight soon after.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears skinny pants and wears a black and grey robe with the hood down. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Kali was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is a Fortune-teller first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

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; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scimitar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length green crest. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Donaar has worked very hard to control his curse. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a laborer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and half-orc compassion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Emerald (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'5" when asserting himself. His fur is cut close to his head. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Silent was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Rose (60 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Amber (160 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp).