Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born in the west to a Spice Merchant, Heian learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Has a crush, Job, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1100 gp. Sard (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 east. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 20 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. Amethyst (140 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His golden hair is still thick. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

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. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an entirely tan suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Snagog is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Marshal. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Marshal for the past few years.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 32000 sp.