Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His green eyes peer out from beneath his feathered grey hat.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. To his fellows he 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: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has amber eyes and a grey hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born in the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Iolite (60 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: She wears suspenders and white workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, and carries warhammers. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born in the north. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a brown tunic with violet highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. The war was a terrible time for him, and Dworic does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His first spouse was a Masseuse, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His rusty crest is unkempt and raggedy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a tan shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and tan pants. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and whips. Her chestnut hair is cut short. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his morningstar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and 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

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small violet clips. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Juliana lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice, Extrovert. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 gp.