Description: An older man who does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, he is not a threatening figure. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Namfoodle was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mercenary. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has shaved his head bald. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Crown-heir first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a dagger on her belt. Her brass crest, when down, is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Gilkass was born the youngest of three triplets. In her youth she was a Bowyer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is short and brown. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears just a tan suit. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Zaffrab wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her red hair is cut short. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spy. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her cinnamon fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Windy was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 90 gp.