Description: He is a husky man, who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His hair is short and silver. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Bertram is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bertram grew up listening to his father's many stories. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has worked as a Gardener like his father before him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in an above average manner. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 5000 cp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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. Emeny fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 200 sp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the right. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Kristryd was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She tends to her Baker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a glaive on her belt. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Falkrunn hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Falkrunn 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.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged woman very much looks the part of a Bricklayer and is in decent physical shape. Her white hair is well kept. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

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. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She tends to her Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To be a Painter again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 6000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born into a rich family. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This northern woman prefers to wear flannel. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her black crest down. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has a crush on the local marshal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 270 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman dresses like a well dressed Slave Trader does. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. Her brown hair is well kept. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

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

Possessions: Just what you see.