Description: This man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Erdan hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has black hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Sard (40 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Jade (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Thervan has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting gnolls, the young Caeldrim began to lead the lost caravan. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 6000 sp. Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Amber (80 gp).