Description: Standing 5'5", this man wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Architect profession.

History: Born to a Architect, his father struggled to pay the bills. Xappan was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Banker. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'3" and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His gold crest is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears violet trousers with brown and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly clubs and whips. Her hair is red and curly. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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. After a long history of fighting, Melissa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 120 gp. Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length white fur. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her copper eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Left-Handed was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She wears a black collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. She has moderate length chestnut hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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 now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her dark red hair in a flapper bob. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. 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: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Aldous hails from a village terrorized by brigands. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Aldous was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1100 sp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Zircon (60 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a green feather.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Nutae was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Chain shirt.