Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. Her tied-back hair is red. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Standing 3'1", this woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Eran is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears skinny pants and wears a grey and brown robe with the hood down, and is pretty ugly. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and green pants. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Navigator who has hired her part-time. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, grey shirt, and pastel tie. He has moderate length black hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'0" and wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Eva was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Eva decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He usually wears his brown robe and has his longbow always slung over his shoulder. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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, Patrick is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. A gifted student he started as a Dyer, but he got bored and became a Miner. He has worked as a Miner like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp. Amber (140 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tan trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Seebo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man wears a brown costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. He wears his white fur down. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Serpent 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 drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Half-Plate.