Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is braided into rings. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Alberich is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Alberich grew up listening to his father's many stories. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His red fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are yellow.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Sun will drive conversation. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Sun grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Sun. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He stands about 6'3" and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He sports a flattop crest cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Herbalist but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the south to a Herbalist, Dazzazn learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, pastel cloak, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. He has beige fur. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. A gifted student he started as a Locksmith, but he got bored and became a Assassin. He struck the Assassin job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She got into the Map Maker business at a young age. After coming to the age of reason, Blossom took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has achieved small success as a Map Maker.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'1" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 Drusilia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Drusilia 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. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Baker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Flaws: Insane, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 3'6" and wears a simple tan robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he likes to wear black tank tops with pastel pants. His black crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in the south. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (5 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her fur, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Drifting was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 Doctor. She has worked as a Doctor like her mother before her.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Jet (110 gp). Amber (110 gp). Citrine (50 gp).