Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with green slacks. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Ortegar hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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 he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed violet hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

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. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Richard was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with white slacks. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Aust and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 4000 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Rose (40 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her black fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mortician. She has worked as a Mortician like her father before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Guardian. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 900 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He carries with him a set of kukris, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His tied-back hair is black. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alston fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 10000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is typically in her Herbalist uniform. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Irann was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her childhood dream was to be a Cartwright, but she was a colossal failure. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a cartwright again

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). 1 Medium 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 a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Dayereth abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature crossbow.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1100 pp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Sard (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).