Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Charles fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man likes to wear blue tank tops with brown pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. 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: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Kody liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a hunchback. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Nicholas was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. 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 north. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Weaver they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Courier, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Human compassion; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp.