Description: Standing 5'5", this man dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His yellow fur, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He bought a bow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This eastern woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Quelenna was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Herbalist. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She wears an entirely white suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born in the north. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Miller but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a Barkeep, his father struggled to pay the bills. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her fur is yellow and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Windy lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Courier, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 3000 cp. Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. He carries with him a set of longbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is singed and shortened. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Ribbles was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Tanner and was forced into it by his family; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 3000 cp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp).