Description: This northern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Courier. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Obsidian (5 gp).

Description: 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 red hair is still thick. His white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Sporting a brown mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Grigi enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Grigi hails from a village terrorized by goblins. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a deep hatred of goblins

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. Her golden hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. 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 born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 58. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She struck the Carpenter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp.