Description: Standing 5'5", this 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 flattop hair cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born into a rich family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is physically well-built. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is a Yochlol in disguise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery, and he perpetually has his lance ready. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Carrie was born the youngest of three triplets. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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. Carrie fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Heian was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Military, Religious, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 120 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.