Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a grey tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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, Heward is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Heward 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. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 50 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is chestnut and curly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gifted student he started as a Banker, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 sp. Coral (40 gp).

Description: This woman wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. 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: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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. Liftrasa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Raer has worked very hard to control his curse. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her copper crest is smooth and relatively long. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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

History: Uadjit hails from a village terrorized by drow. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Uadjit alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She is content; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: A 3'1" southern man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His black hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a bather and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Hematite (14 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. Her cinnamon fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her yellow eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Adventurer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She stands about 4'8" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her white fur is knotted and matted. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Pelt enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born into a rich family. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is greedy

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. A small bag of saffron. (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.