Description: A middle-aged man, he wears skinny pants and wears a green and brown robe with the hood down, and is pretty ugly. His hair is blue and curly. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Melech hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has moderate length yellow fur. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a Baker, her father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spice Merchant 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: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he likes to wear green tank tops with grey pants. He has no hair. He has white eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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, Xappan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He carries a battered falchion and tarnished axe as well. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A freak accident while working with his Fisher mother left him crippled. 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 fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vlorn grew up listening to his father's many stories. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He keeps his long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Heskan was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Detective and was forced into it by his family; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings, and carries hammers. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bellfounder for hire.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bellfounder responsibilities is difficult; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Nature, In love. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Robert was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Robert was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.