Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Alexandrite (200 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He wears his brown hair up. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. White opal (500 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Jet (50 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Rose (80 gp).

Description: A 5'6" northern man, he wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

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. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Hematite (10 gp).

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. After a long history of fighting, Heian and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 pp. Eye agate (6 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars, marred by sweets. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His eyes are gray 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 does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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 Dyer. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To be a Ruler again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp.