Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He became a Tanner soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He stands about 3'4" and wears a blue collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His chestnut hair is cut short. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Roondar has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This western man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Riardon isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this northern man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is content; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a hunchback. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gimble was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a red armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports white long hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.