Description: This dark-skinned male wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Nordak was born with his father's beautiful face. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is renowned for her bright violet dresses and hats. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the right. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. Keyleth abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 70 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. After a long history of fighting, Aline and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A 5'0" northern man, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair is silver and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Armorer. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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 was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. Her bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: She 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 slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 700 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 sp.