Description: This western man wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 20000 cp. Onyx (30 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Moss agate (15 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Solomon alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

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

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1100 sp. Azurite (7 gp). Peridot (20 gp).

Description: This malnourished man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Cook but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He bought a whip and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries a battered falchion and tarnished glaive as well. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gifted student he started as a Actor, but he got bored and became a Shepherd. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gilbert fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 sp.