Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a yellow shirt with thin white vertical stripes and yellow pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has auburn hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kody grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 2 Smokesticks. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a violet costume with the symbols of death on his torso, he is not a threatening figure. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'5" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Red garnet (120 gp).