Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His hair is always cut to a buzz. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. John was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. John decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 12000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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 south. He tends to his Apothecary job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears pastel trousers with white and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Richard was born with his mother's beautiful face. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears bulky red painted plate armor. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rose (80 gp). Black opal (1100 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a hunchback. He wears his brown hair up. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.