Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 4000 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp).

Description: A 4'9" western man, he usually wears his black robe and has his crossbow always slung over his shoulder. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1600 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a pastel vest and prefers tan and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2200 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Malachite (5 gp). White opal (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his chestnut hair up. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a Jeweler, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a pastel shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the east to a Map Maker, Mindartis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Mindartis was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Map Maker. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Coral (70 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).