Description: An older man who wears a tan tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes, he is not a threatening figure. He has white hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Varis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His childhood dream was to be a Glassblower, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Cook job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Sapply hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is purple and very short. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines white.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a green Stetson hat and green clothes. His purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Ploughman they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Bather, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Bather

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 110 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears a green costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Shava was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 gp. Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He wears his yellow fur up. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Hunter for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and to be a layabout again

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student he started as a Brewer, but he got bored and became a Cartwright. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cartwright for hire.

Motivation: To be a Brewer again; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. She carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished hand crossbow as well. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Vaina speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is an amazing painter.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her first spouse was a Unemployed, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vaina fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson blue hat.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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 a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. After a long history of fighting, Igden and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 90 gp.