Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Aelar took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up longsword and armor he uses now. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and scimitars. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise black.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Xappan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat, and is pretty ugly. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is harsh and unforgiving.

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. Through the years after Paggen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Paggen's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Paggen and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is baby faced.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'10". She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: Sutha lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student she started as a Slave Trader, but she got bored and became a Glassblower. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Glassblower.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Glassblower responsibilities is difficult; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man stands a little under 2'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, his father struggled to pay the bills. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 cp. Citrine (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 6'8" and is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, grey shirt, and blue tie. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His gold crest is still thick. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He found a children's book about a Dragonborn Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker tan hat.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. After a long history of fighting, Mella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: Standing 6'4", this woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears her rusty crest down. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Chassath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Chassath grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Brewer. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Brewer and was forced into it by her family; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp.