Description: This tall, slender man wears a yellow shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is long and brown with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Peren fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Bonds: Nature, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has dyed his greying green crest a little too much giving a sharp green color. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Ildrex is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Ildrex was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is black and curly. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born in the north to a Blacksmith, Nella learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears his auburn hair up. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's in love

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a red cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Ortegar abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 20 gp. Sard (80 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His head has been shaved. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Aerdeth lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A 6'7" eastern man, he wears professional attire. He keeps his silver crest in a pixie cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Fax was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge.

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Melissa has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 60 gp.