Description: 5'1" and muscular, this southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She is baby faced.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Engraver for hire.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Sard (40 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Coral (130 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Rose (40 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Citrine (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Being a Priest kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 8000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bowyer born in the past three hundred years. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Ortegar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He became a Bowyer soon after.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Obsidian (11 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she very much looks the part of a Weaver. She keeps her silver hair in a flapper bob. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her feathered red hat.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Weaver. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Maegan reached her early adolescence her Halfling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to pay off her debts

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Military, Family, Debt. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Griselda never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries a battered spear and tarnished flail as well. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. 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. Thorpe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.