Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He carries a battered mace and tarnished pickaxe as well. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Grûblik fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 sp. Jade (50 gp).

Description: He very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shoemaker who has hired him part-time. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shoemaker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shoemaker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Shoemaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. After coming to the age of reason, Gunter took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Navigator.

Motivation: To be a Brewer again; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bulzo grew up listening to his father's many stories. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Butcher they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Servant, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tabaxi, and stands approximately 4'10". She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and her gloved hand is found clutching a longbow. She has no fur. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. The war was a terrible time for her, and Gaaki does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a very tight haircut. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Passionate, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. Red garnet (90 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears just a tan suit. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She is obsessed with her god.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.