Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'2" when asserting himself. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Leucis is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He got into the Shipwright business at a young age. His first spouse was a Map Maker, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is grey, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. She sports white long hair. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed blue hat.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Doctor but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Veloptima was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist. Bonds: Nature, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries rapiers. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Serpent was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man is wearing a long, violet cloak. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born in the west. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To protect his home; and doesn't want to be a stylist and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Immigrant, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. His hair is auburn and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Arnold's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Arnold was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 60 gp. Jet (70 gp).

Description: 3'6" and muscular, this southern man wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. The war was a terrible time for him, and Alvyn does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Alvyn was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alvyn decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp.