Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red fur is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a black shirt, with a green mid length skirt with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She wears a colorful flower in her dark red hair. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Bryseis hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Bryseis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her fur is brown and curly. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Moon alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His copper crest is singed and shortened. He has gold eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is physically well-built. His green crest, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Tailor business at a young age. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Tailor.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp).

Description: She wears a fancy tan dress. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Cartwright, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and doesn't want to be a cartwright and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. 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: She was born in a small mountains village. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Artin was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.