Description: This tall, slender man wears a green cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. He has no hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this northern man wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Chad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Citrine (50 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She carries with her a set of falchions on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 15th 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. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quilla fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has no hair. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Malquis grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Malquis. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver pearl (50 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the north, 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 north 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. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: This man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. His auburn hair is cut short. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Erky hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He worked as a nervous Barrister and found it very stressful. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Layabout. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Suhnae was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Layabout.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.