Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He has wavy blonde hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Thomas lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thomas grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Thomas. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a very tight haircut. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Disease, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He takes great joy in being the best Bather in town.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bather. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a barkeep again

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished pickaxe as well. He has wavy red hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden pearl (130 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Painter. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He takes great joy in being the best Painter in town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Good lock.