Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is renowned for his bright red suits and hats. He has white hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. His tied-back hair is white. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

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. Az-Bror was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Priest. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2200 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'5". He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a warhammer. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He worked as a nervous Junk Dealer and found it very stressful. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He got into the Gardener business at a young age. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Sculptor. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to be a sculptor again

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp).

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His cinnamon fur, when down, is lengthy. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Shivering lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Sage. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Ploughman they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Sage, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and doesn't want to be a sage and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears bulky green painted plate armor and is in decent physical shape. Her silver crest is thinning but still full. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Harann hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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: Dragonborn compassion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 sp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a quarterstaff, but if one is not available he will default to his monstrous two handed axe. His hair is always cut to a buzz. 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 does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'7" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Knight who has hired him part-time. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She has silver hair. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nedda never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, In love, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Simple lock.