Description: This western man wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a warhammer on his belt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Balimaar was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. 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. Balimaar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tattered old clothes. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He got into the Miner business at a young age. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Miner. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy rusty crest. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a hunchback. His rusty crest, when down, is lengthy. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Nadarr has worked very hard to control his curse. Being a Brewer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Sard (60 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Jet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 sp. 3 Thunderstones.