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. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Manfred's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears baggy brown pantaloons and a red scarf. He wears a colorful flower in his yellow fur. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Flask alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 sp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this western woman wears bulky white painted plate armor. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Animal Trainer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student she started as a Seamstress, but she got bored and became a Animal Trainer. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a white coat with brown slacks. He carries with him a set of warhammers, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His black hair is long and unkept. He is baby faced.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Sculptor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This malnourished man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his brown hair down. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

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 struck the Dilettante job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fisher. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has no hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Himo was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 5000 cp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Crown-heir. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to be a mason again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His brown fur has been sun bleached extensively. He has blue eyes and a pastel hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born into a rich family. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Hematite (9 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). White pearl (110 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.