Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is red and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a great chef.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Good lock.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Trym alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Red spinel (90 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He prefers to wear violet clothing when he does not wear armor. His head has been shaved. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. After a long history of fighting, Suhnae and his spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 70 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Rose (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She has slicked back red hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Artistic, Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: He wears a brown collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His gray fur is greasy and uncared for. His fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Fragrant is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Fragrant was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

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 is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Warryn was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Warryn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man wears professional attire. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Gifted from a young age, Igden studied abroad. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 17000 cp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.