Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has no hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1300 sp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears professional attire. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He uses divination through singing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Diggory alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 28000 sp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He likes to wear black tank tops with brown pants. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a red coat with pastel slacks, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'4" when asserting himself. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. After coming to the age of reason, Shane took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 80 pp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a yellow costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His ears are large.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bowyer born in the past three hundred years. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Everard grew up listening to his father's many stories. A freak accident while working with his Shipwright father left him crippled. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and balancing his hectic life and new bowyer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp.