Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is an amazing painter.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather, marred by chocolates. His hair is black and very short. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Erdan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 Doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). Onyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, black cloak. His hair is long and brown with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Varis was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Tailor. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Tailor responsibilities is difficult; and to be a apothecary again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This western man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are blue.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 11000 sp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.