Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aramil grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a simple green robe with black stripes complete with hood. He wears his chestnut hair up. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Tanner. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: He wears a brown shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Berrian was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. 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. Berrian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 pp. Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. His black hair is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is still thick. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is a Deep Scion in disguise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1100 gp. Hematite (13 gp).