Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She is physically well-built. Her hair is golden and very short. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kansif studied abroad. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a black armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. His crest is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Knight. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Mehen was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his ceremonial dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and he perpetually has his ceremonial dagger ready. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Pelaios is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Pelaios lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. After a long history of fighting, Pelaios and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a very tight haircut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sapply lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears long strands of sapphire and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Military, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 3'2", this man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Orryn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a hunchback. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Valanthe was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 pp. Coral (50 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a fancy brown suit. He wears his auburn hair up. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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. He is obsessed with his god.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Weaver. He has worked as a Weaver like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Junk Dealer again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp.