Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is long and unkept. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a Soapmaker, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Kyle alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Clerebold will drive conversation. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Clerebold fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his small tan hat.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Adelard was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was a Bricklayer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 13000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.