Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He carries a battered glaive and tarnished sai as well. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Ralf is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ralf fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Military, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He uses divination through singing.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has wavy white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'1", this man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. He has no hair. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Aldous reached his early adolescence his Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. After a long history of fighting, Aldous and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a spear, but if one is not available he will default to his quarterstaff. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Revenge; and money/treasure

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Just what you see.