Description: This late middle aged man wears bulky grey painted plate armor and is in decent physical shape. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Rolen's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Rolen lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Tharivol lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Tharivol never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and many gnolls want him driven away

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Family, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1700 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Malachite (15 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Hematite (15 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is braided into rings. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Gennal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.