Description: This western man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mason who has hired him part-time. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Miner. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Miner; and he wants to get laid

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Deep green spinel (130 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull white iron scale mail. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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: She desires power and/or immortality; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. A friendly and beautiful Gnome, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

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. 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her lavender fur, when down, is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She uses divination through singing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emerald fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He wears professional attire, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. His crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Hirrathak enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Map Maker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Addict, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 sp. Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and yellow tie. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his spear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes are white and beady.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Tiefling in existence. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A 5'2" northern man, he wears skinny pants and wears a blue and brown robe with the hood down. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green.

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 is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Armorer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 110 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, brown shirt, and blue tie. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a dull look in his amber 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 lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A freak accident while working with his Engraver mother left him crippled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. After a long history of fighting, Delg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 230 gp.