Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His brown hair is still thick. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Efferil alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 12000 cp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Red garnet (90 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her copper crest is lengthy. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a white costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small white clips. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

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. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man wears professional attire. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a great chef.

History: He was born into a rich family. Through the years after Gerard was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Gerard's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a tan shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born into a rich family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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: Expand her business; and she is greedy

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his chestnut hair up. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Citrine (30 gp). Jade (150 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This malnourished woman tends to wear a large white jacket. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Engraver business.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Engraver hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Debt. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 30 gp. Silver pearl (150 gp).