Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Marshal first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. His gray fur is long and unkept. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 10 pp. Red spinel (100 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Sensitive, Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Jet (90 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who 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. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. The war was a terrible time for him, and Mehen does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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. Mehen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His red hair is cut short. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Anverth hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Anverth was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'9". He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red crest. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a hunchback. His red crest is braided into rings. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. Maagog enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Emotional, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His black crest is still thick. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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. Mreksh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a simple yellow robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Naal was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Naal decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 pp.