Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Manfred embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Blacksmith business.

History: Manfred lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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. After a long history of fighting, Manfred and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears long strands of amethyst and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, marred by chocolates. His hair is cut close to his head. He has violet eyes and a blue hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His auburn hair is lengthy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the east to a Cartwright, Anselm learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Anselm has worked very hard to control his curse. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Job, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull violet iron scale mail. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Geoffrey is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has green eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive, Insomniac. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.