Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His chestnut hair is cut short. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Aelar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aelar grew up listening to his father's many stories. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature club.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. He is physically well-built. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Suhnae's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He takes great joy in being the best Shepherd in town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Suhnae grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has no hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Raer fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 350 pp. Amber (160 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Amber (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears professional attire, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

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 ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Hadarai was born with his mother's beautiful face. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Being a Slave Trader kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Emotional, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 80000 cp. Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: This man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Quarion was born the youngest of three triplets. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 24000 sp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Coral (90 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.