Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. His fur is short and black. His yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is brown and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Onyx (20 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'5". She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her blue hair is knotted and matted. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a red feather.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Gomory was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Barber. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

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 wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Bree is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

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. When Bree 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 left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand her business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Flogg enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Knight hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. After a long history of fighting, Flogg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 40 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Damaia was born with her mother's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair is wavy and long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

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 submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a black scarf. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gomory studied abroad. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his spear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished spear as well. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 150 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.