Description: He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. One day when Ernest was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Ernest was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. After a long history of fighting, Ernest and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears tattered old clothes. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His first spouse was a Servant, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (80 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A 6'2" eastern man, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, pastel shirt, and white tie. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Guy 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 illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a worn and beaten armor, and is pretty ugly. His hair is black and curly. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Nicholas hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He worked as a nervous Engraver and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Engraver.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries a battered greataxe and tarnished bow as well. He has silver hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Gilbert was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Shepherd, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Amethyst (140 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp).