Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull violet iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a very tight haircut. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Peridot (80 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears an entirely white suit with pastel socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her yellow fur is heavily combed to the right. 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 is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Eye agate (15 gp).

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. 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-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Agnes was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Agnes fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Tourmaline (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length orange fur. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Great was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Great has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears just a brown suit. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to reunite with his old friends

Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 350 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is blonde and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He got into the Hunter business at a young age. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1 Good lock.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His silver crest is matted, messy, and big. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

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. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's in love

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.