Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'9" and sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a worn and beaten armor. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Kyle lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Conrad was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Dyer. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, John took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Half-Plate.