Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with blue slacks. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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. Efferil fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 6'6". He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born into a rich family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a club on his belt. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his club, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His crest, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Shamash was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Shamash's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Shamash and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

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. 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: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His childhood dream was to be a Fisher, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: An older man who tends to wear a large blue jacket, he is not a threatening figure. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. He has a hunchback. His hair is short and auburn. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Darrak lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age his father died while driving off some drow. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in rapier use. 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. Darrak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 22000 sp. Coral (70 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His crest is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 cp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp).

Description: He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and wants a kiss

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries with him a set of greataxes, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is short and red. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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: Paggen lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Paggen liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.