Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a fancy blue suit. His hair is red and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and he perpetually has his warhammer ready. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Ralf lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is long and golden with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He wears a mask on his face.

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. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ralf does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. After a long history of fighting, Ralf and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Buckler. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He got into the Armorer business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with yellow slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his golden hair up. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. 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 wants revenge against brigands; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.