Description: This southern man wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and grey robe with the hood down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Cook. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cook and was forced into it by his family; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Acid flasks.

Description: This late middle aged man prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and grey handkerchief worn on his right side. His gray fur is long and unkept. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2100 gp. Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Amber (50 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp).

Description: This man wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His fur is red, silky, and of moderate length. His yellow eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Two Llamas hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1000 cp.