1,000 Faces: Obadiah Cornwallis

Obadiah Cornwallis
Male Vampire

Ability Scores:
Str 20      Dex 18      Con 20
Int 13      Wis 15       Cha 13 


Traits:
Assassin
Patient
Observant

Role: Obadiah is relatively young vampire, but was a dogged opponent of undead and monsters in his life. His supernatural gifts make him an especially deadly foe because he knows how a monster hunter thinks.

He travels the the countryside in a large covered wagon that is driven by his sister and protector, Barbarella. Barb assisted him in life as a hunter and has become blood bound to him in his undeath, something that truly bothers Obadiah.

1,000 Faces: Homer the Talking Pig

Homer
Male Pig

Ability Scores:
Str 6      Dex 6      Con 8
Int 12    Wis 12     Cha 16 


Traits:
Honest
Loyal
Kind

Role: Homer is the familiar to a wizard named Ianna Klump. Klump is away on business on another plane and Homer wasn't feeling up to going. However, Klump had been in a relationship with Nigel Bent, who makes and sells drugs. Even though they broke up, Ianna didn't change her wards and Bent was able to sneak in and steal magical ingredients and Homer.

Bent's plan was to sell Homer, but talking pigs aren't easy to move. He finally dumped the pig on a farmer name Egar Brown. However, Homer noticed and commented that Egar was abusive to his wife Piper and daughter, Lora. This led to Homer being muzzled and Egar being willing take nearly anything to rid himself of the pig. Homer convinced Egar that eating him would cause an infection, which angered Egar further.

Homer can easily join the party after they stay the night in the Brown's barn seeking shelter from a storm.  Egar insists on trading nearly anything for the pig to be rid of him.

Homer is versed in history, local politics, and gossip (Ianna is a notorious gossip). Returning Ianna to him would make her both a capable contact and potent ally. Keeping Homer would essentially give the party a sage.

1,000 Faces: Eliza Bretonne

Eliza Bretonne
Female Human
5E Level 3 Oath of the Crown Paladin
LL Level 3 Fighter

Ability Scores:
Str 13    Dex 10    Con 14
Int 10    Wis 12     Cha 15 


Traits:
Brave
Trusting
Zealous
Nieve

Role: Eliza is only 16 years old, but a vision from Chaplain Edvard Husk revealed her to be favored by the God of Law. She has quickly move from being a squire to a full-fledge Paladin and handled the new post with grace, even after suffering some ridicule from a few veterans in her fold. What sets Eliza apart is her healing ability (3 x her level healed per day) and her ability to tell if someone is lying at all times. She is training with the long sword, but prefers the mace.
   As a contact, Eliza is a loyal ally with a good deal of pull amongst her church
   As an enemy, she is relentless and will follow whatever orders she is given.

1,000 Faces: Rooster Woebegon

Rooster Woebegon
Male Gnome
5E Level 6 Assassin Rogue
LL Level 6 Thief

Ability Scores:
Str 12    Dex 16    Con 13
Int 11    Wis 10     Cha 13 


Traits:
Braggart
Loudmouth
Holds A Grudge
Insecure

Role: Rooster could just as easily be a criminal contact as a rival to one of the characters. Rooster is a killer and a good one, but he is also a braggart and the Assassin Guild leadership sees that as a huge liability. He gets into fights easily because he doesn't know when to shut up, but at the moment his usefulness to the Guild just outweighs the negative attention he brings to it.
   As a contact, Rooster brings baggage, but if you need your back covered he will get the job done.
   As a rival, he's easy to goad into a fight, but he's a dangerous opponent.

1,000 Faces: Auggie Dukain

August "Auggie" Dukain
Male Human
5E Level 3 Light Domain Cleric of Lathander
LL Level 3 Cleric

Ability Scores:
Str 13    Dex 10    Con 12
Int 13    Wis 16     Cha 16 


Traits:
Well Spoken
Compassionate
Courageous
Womanizer

Role: Auggie is good to use as an ally who helps character recuperate between adventures more quickly. He's very useful to navigate the church's politics, rival religions, and any members of the upper class they need to contact. Auggie gets along well with the upper crust and has had several romantic liasons among the wives and daughters of useful targets. In a pinch, Auggie will does his very best to help his friends out and will not back down if they are in real trouble. He is stationed at the Light of Dawn Cathedral.

1,000 Faces: Chestnut Boykin

Chestnut Boykin
Female Stout Halfling
5E Level 4 Mastermind Rogue
LL Level 4 Rogue

Ability Scores:
Str 11    Dex 15    Con 13
Int 13    Wis 9      Cha 14 

Appearance: 
Chocolate Brown Eyes
Curly Auburn Hair
Curvaceous
Tall For A Halfling

Traits:
Educated

Flight Over Fight
Likable
Looking for Love
Loyal

Role: Chestnut is best used as a major ally or handler for a group. She's well connected and loyal, but will always look to flee the scene over fighting. She is also a potential love interest for a member of the group and potentially, forcing the best interests of her lover over her loyalties.

31 Nights of Halloween: (1,000 Faces) Copious Vonegut

Copious Vonegut
Appearance: Thin, wiry, his eyes are always darting around. He has a thin smile, almost a snear. His hair is a flaming red, he appears to be trying to grow a beard, but it is straggly. He has sky-blue eyes.

Quote: “Oh, sure, Copious will take care of it (muttering), I always take care of it, but maybe I'll take care of you next time?”

Roleplaying:
He mutters constantly.

His hands are always moving, often wildly gesticulating, when he 

   talks.
He always makes eye-contact, almost as a challenge when he's talking to someone.

Background: Copious is both cobbler's apprentice in the local town and a witch (2nd level human magic-user/2nd level warlock), a member of the Snakeblood Coven, led by Rosalynd DuBar (6th level half-elf magic-user/6th level undying pack warlock). The Snakebloods total eight members and meet once a month, usually the second night of the full moon, at Rosalynd's shack in the North Woods. It is there they enact rites and sacrifices, typically goats, rabbits, or cats, to Hecate.

   However, once a year, a member chosen at random is chosen to bring a human to sacrifice for Hecate's blessing and to renew the Coven's magic. Copious was chosen to find that sacrifice and his eye of Laverne Magilicutte, a fourteen year old lass who lives in Cuttleton. This past spring Copious tried court her, but Laverne had not interest in the young man. He is ashamed and angry and sees this as a way to get his revenge.

Key Info:
Rosalynd chose Copious to make the sacrifice, she felt the young man, now nineteen, needed be pushed, that his devotion to Hecate was wavering and that his obsession with Laverne could lead him away from her worship. She see's Copious' power, despite his lack of commitment and has designs to seduce him, to control his power. She firmly believes that with Copious under her thumb she could usurp the nearby Misthart Coven and consolidate her power.

Copious is a lonely young man who just wants to be loved. While he has moments where he fantasizes about sacrificing Laverne, overall, he knows it's wrong. However, he likes the attention Rosalynd has started giving to him. She touches him very often and he finds her alluring even though she is over decade older than he is. Her attention makes him feel important in the Coven.

1,000 Faces: Augustus Candlecake

Augustus Candlecake is a very gifted Diviner who sponsors adventurers operating in Waterdeep and the Sword Coast.

Augustus's family own a successful caravan operation that operates between the Sword Coast and Cormyr, but even though he is the oldest, he's never held any interest in taking it over. For years, this cause him to butt heads with his father, Julius. However, his talent at arcane magic allowed him to become an apprentice for Edweena Thwent, a gnome Diviner of great renown who has a tower in the City of Splendors. Julius agreed to pay for his son's education in exchange for lending his skills in the operation of the caravan business.

Augustus voraciously learned from Edweena and within six years he moved on as her apprentice. His desire for praise and acceptance motivated his success, but know matter how much he received it was never enough. Deep inside,  he longed to be an adventurer and plunder dungeons, he face several obstacles: most people he interacted found him overconfident and obnoxious, he was squeamish, and he had a terrible case of asthma.

While he expected to hate working for his father, his divination gifts prevented their caravans from experiencing several prominent disasters that that competitors did not escape. He grew to enjoy the intricacies of detecting any obstacles and he and his father began to grow closer.

After several years, Augustus began researching the Cairn of Remin-Kar, a burial chamber reputed to hold a good deal of treasure but that was supposed to haunted by the Priest-King buried there. While Augustus had no interest in endangering himself, he began using his skills first to detect the Cairn and then to gain knowledge of it. After feeling confident that this was no more dangerous than a caravan route, he assemble a team of adventurers.
And his plans and warnings allowed them to easily to defeat the mummy and gain the treasure.

Soon, Augustus had another reputation, as a good lead to gain fame and riches plumbing dungeons, two of his first team, Egana Maramark and Stu Sugarhawk even took up membership in the elite Force Grey.

Today, Augustus is a very rich man and has little need for his role in the caravan business, which has infuriated his father and reignited old feauds between them. Generally, the adventurers who work with him don't last more than a few expeditions because of his personality, but his reputation assures those who work for him a very good chance at succes. Additionally, at this point he only charges 20% commission for his role. Thus far, only two expeditions have attempted to cut him out of their deal. In both instances he called in favors from previous adventurers to deal with them, splitting the cut 50/50 with them and leaving those who cheated very badly beaten and essentially blackballed from the Waterdeep adventuring scene.

Augustus is nervous, dresses extravagantly and has a large trophy room with items from each the expeditions he has sponsored. He is constantly explaining to people his mastery at divination and seems to delight at hinting about his awareness of things from their past that those who work for him don't want revealed. Due to asthma, he sneezes quite a bit.

Despite his talent and success he has an inferiority complex and will often create conflict when none is necessary and takes offense and innocent comments. This has led him to begin using a drug known as Shadow to calm himself, unfortunately, his supplier of Shadow is a member of the Xanthar's gang and he is actively ignoring the risks that brings to his life.

1,000 Faces: Lubbick the Butcher

Lubbick Dren took over his family's butcher business close to two years ago. Lubbick is a half-orc, his mother Nora had a brief but passionate affair with Logrick of the Stone-Eaters Clan. Logrick was killed in a duel after a mercenary called Nora some unpleasant names. Nora's brother, Harvard and his wife, Liin took her and Lubbick in and gave Nora a job and when he was old enough, taught Lubbick to be a butcher. While Liin was aware of the prejudice against Lubbick and distant with him, Harvard was glad to have a child in their home and truly loved his nephew.

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Unfortunately, Harvard had some gambling debts with Boss Heronymous and after getting behind, lost his right hand as a tax for being late on his debt. Lubbick was forced to step in at the young age of 12 to take over the major duties of his uncle. He was big and strong for his age and was good with a clever. He eventually worked out a deal with Boss Heronymous to dispose of victims through his shop. He did all of this unbeknownst to the rest of his family.

These days, even though the day to day business is slightly down due to prejudice, the store is thriving and Lubbick is even working with his beloved uncle to learn to butcher using his off-hand.

In fact, Lubbick has met a young half-orc woman, Tressy, and he intends to propose. However, Lubbick wants to cut his ties with Boss Heronymous now that his Uncle's debt is paid, but whenever he tries to bring it up, Heronymous simply grins and pats his shoulder while laughing.

Lubbick is smart and hardworking, he loves his Mother and Uncle and care about his Aunt even though he is aware of her shame. He is tired of disposing of bodies for Boss Heronymous and wants to make an honest life for himself and the woman he loves.

1,000 Faces: Dodd Werner

Dodd Werner is about to turn 30 and has spent his life as a "hireling" for various adventurers. He has a reputation for loyalty and intelligence and has been an extra hand in over two dozen expeditions into the world's most dangerous places. However, he's been smart with his coin and is contemplating retirement.

Dodd's (0 level human male fighter) time as an extra hand has earned him bad knees a white streak down the middle of his thick raven-black hair and an eye twitch. 

However, he's made several powerful allies, including the Princess Ravon Malastraud, Erik de Rune, and The Ultracarnist. 

While Dodd is trying to talk himself out of any further expeditions, his reputation proceeds him and at least twice a month brave or foolhardy dungeoneers hope to hire Dodd for his vast experience. He's fairly easy  to find, since he has his own booth at the Yawning Portal in Waterdeep.

Dodd, is 5'11", in fair shape, has an enchanted breast plate (+1/-1 AC), a mace he's named Aggie, and mule named Cotton.  He's recently began courting a schoolmarm, named Rebecca Monroe.

1,000 Faces: Sabrina and Serena Wollstonecraft

The Wollstonecraft twins are ambitious up and comers within the Contractor's Guild of Zobek. Their mother is Enchidna Wollstonecraft of Lem, Qent's most successful caravan magnate who has opened trade routes throughtout most of Tarth. Their oldest sister, Amarilla, went off to study wizardry at the Tower of Omens and Enchidna assumed her twins would want nothing more than to assume her place in the family business when she retired.

However, Sabrina and Serena despised their step-father, Piers Arliss-Wollstonecraft and their younger half-sister, Vyvian. Both women were always far more interested in stories of lost treasures and piracy, eventually found their way to Zobek and in the business of their uncle, Taurus Wollstonecraft, a moneylender who had ties to the Minerva crime family.

The twins were drawn to their Uncle's darker life, filled with violence, intimidation, and murder.  Eventually, a lover they shared named Norrin Dard, introduced them to the worship of Zehir and from there they used that thread to gain the access to the Contractor's Guild for the training they desired.

Rumor has it that the twins have deeply impressed Guild Master Yuanna Shadowspear and have continued to perform above expectaions for assassins of so little experience.

Sabrina (7th Level Human Assassin Rogue and 1st Level Sorcerer) is the quieter of the two, she notices everything and truly enjoys the kill. She believes that some strange heritage flows through the blood of her family and spends her downtime perfecting it. She is very close to their oldest sister and exchanges letters with her often.

Serena (8th Level Human Mastermind Rogue) is talkative and vivacious. She likes to be the center of attention and is always aware of the most recent gossip, a literal encyclopedia of who's who in both the underworld and high society. She is plagued by recurring nightmares of murdering her mother, which she has hidden even from Sabrina.

Both women are very loyal to the Guild Master and to their mentor Trok of Brimmen. While they learned the tenets of Zehir, they have no interest in the religious aspects of the Guild and therefore despise High Shroud Cedric, an old friend of their father who seems to always be keeping his eye upon the two women.

1,000 Faces: Bellamy and Plum

Nadir Bellamy and Robespierre Plumb are tomb raiders, reivers, and brigands who have reputation for the merciless approach they take toward their dark deeds.

Bellamy is a Fighter (5th Level Human Battlemaster Fighter), as well as a sage and accomplished alchemist and poisoner. He is very tall and brawny with long midnight-black hair down to his arse and a tattoo of a serpent eating it's own tail, circling his throat. Rumors insist that Bellamy is obsessed with finding the fabled Tower of Eram.

Plumb is Sorcerer and Rogue (3rd Level Tiefling Wild Mage Sorcerer and 3rd Level Assassin Rogue) and a keen observer of people, a gifted liar, and charming when the mood strikes him. His skin is ruddy in color and his eyes peculiar. He is missing two fingers on his left hand and is constantly fidgeting. Plumb's only goal, besides his work, is to find the next woman to bed.

The pair have been working as a team for over a decade, where they claim to have met while being held in the dungeons of Baron Yyrd for horse thievery and assault. They insist that they broke free one night and are responsible for murdering Yrd.

When not working a con, plotting a robbery, or working a contract they can be found most often at the Laughing Corpse, an public house known for catering to the rougher side of life and not safe for civilized folk.

The duo spend coin nearly as quickly as they "earn" it.

1,000 Faces: The Dahlia

The Dahlia (11th Level Human Mastermind Rogue) is the Guild Mistress of the thieves' guild known as the Web, and spy for Baroness Dionna Vivaldi. She operates out of the Butterfly Garden seamstress shop during the day and Miss Vivian's Finishing School at night. The Dahlia's identity is hidden behind her mask, a magic item that can only be removed by her own hand. She is known for being cool and calculating and is the Baroness's most trusted advisor. The Web is respected and feared throughout the realm, known for honoring it's end of any bargain and swiftly striking out against it's enemies.

The Web's membership is close to 30% women, as the Dahlia has been recruiting from the Finishing School where she offers her "girls" lives far more extraordinary than is average for the realm.

The Dahlia is really Annette Mosser, a former handmaiden and trusted friend of the Baroness since their youth. Several years ago, the Web was involved in plot to assassinate Vivaldi and she caught wind of it. She hired several adventurers to deal with the plot and in the aftermath, convinced Annette to fake her own death and take over the Web as the Dahlia. The Baroness knew that Annette was loyal, charming, and smart and trusted her to shape the guild into a tool that could benefit them both.

In the years since, Mosser has blossomed into an effective and efficient leader who has even won the respect of veteran thieves who survived her takeover.

The Dahlia is very careful in guarding her identity and has groomed several Finish School students to act as body doubles.

She is decisive and loyal, something that was originally foreign to many of the guild members, but a quality they have grown to appreciate. Mosser is realistic, however, and always has several contingency plans in place in case her agents opt for a "better offer".

Mosser was a devout worshiper of Pelor for many years, but after so much exposure to the darker side of life, has little respect for the Gods.

She is secretly in love with the Baroness, but is painfully aware that Vivaldi doesn't feel the same way. At this point in her life, she has not allowed herself any romantic entanglements, due to the dangers of her position.

She hates that even her parents believe she has died and her one weakness is keeping tabs upon them by taking several unnecessary trips near their home in the city.

1,000 Faces: Lutfullah Haik

Lutfullah is a Sorcerer (8th Level Human Storm Sorcerer), Alchemist, and former member of the Circle of the Wyvern adventuring company. Lutfullah or Lu to his friends is in his early 30s and owns the tallest building in town. He uses the top floor as his laboratory and has contracts with numerous patrons throughout the region, including several nobles. His work is exemplary, his discoveries exciting, and he is always discrete. 

Lutfullah is very careful to keep his friendships and business associations separate. He is calculating and cautious, which has kept him alive on numerous occasions, as well as a keen listener and his eyes are always watching those he speaks with. He has a passion for the violin and makes time twice a day to practice it, preferring to play for only his closest friends and family.

Unfortunately, Lu has a gambling problem and after working up a hefty debt to the local thieves' guild, he's begun working it off by providing Alchemical admixtures, including poisons. While he hasn't gambled in 3 months, it's always tempting him and he still has plenty of debt to work off.

Lu is 5' 11" stands with a rigid posture, his movements precise and designed to waste the least amount of energy. He is missing two fingers on his left hand, due to an accident on his final outing with the Circle. He speaks 5 languages fluently and most people he meets are suprised at his lack of an accent. 

He coldly holds little regard for the Gods, feeling that they treat mortals as mere pawns on some celestial gameboard. His mind understands the strict rules of magic and alchemy and he finds comfort in those things. He only sees customers by appointment, which must be arranged by his secretary, Willem Dowd.

He married a local, Katarine, and they have two children, a 2 year old daughter, Nuha, and a newborn son, Jon (named after Katarine's father).

1,000 Faces: Kassandra Kray

Kassandra Kray is a bandit leader in her early 30s, who command the Violet Horde, which has plagued the Sword Coast for the last two years. She has also done mercenary work for the Arcane Brotherhood and she has also sold information to the Lords' Alliance. Kass is a natural leader and master tactician.

While Kass has earned solid reputation as the hard-nosed leader of her band, it has allowed her to work within the shadows to combat slavery in the region. In fact, 40% of her band is made up of slaves that she has freed and who have been willing to join the Horde and find a place for them where they are their own masters.

Kass is a Human 5th Level Battle-Master Fighter and a 2nd Level Swashbuckler Rogue. Kass was a guardswoman in Baldur's Gate in her youth and the human misery she lived on a daily basis lead her to a life on the road. She has an interest in history, especially the reign of Netheril, and rumors insist that she will not let her Horde rob a historian or sage they encounter. Kass is a casual worshiper of Tempus.

Kass is 6' 1", is long and lean, with long raven-black locks and deep, dark eyes. She is talkative, sly, and flirty when raiding a group on the road and does her best to use as little violence as possible. She is intensely loyal to her Horde and will track down and bloodily torture anyone who injures or kills one of her own.
In private, she is a bit shy, likes talking history and current events, and is an intense listener.  She has a older sister, Trina and a younger brother, Kalvin, who both live in Thundertree. She tries to make time to quietly visit them at least twice a year and helps them fund the farm they and their families work.

1,000 Faces: Odric Ravenskraft

Odric is a sage in his late 50s who operates the Bookery, which has become known as the region's best source for rare and exotic tomes. For the right price and enough time Odric has proven capable of locating whatever rare work he is tasked with.

A benefit of his work is that it allows the pursuit of his own interest,  conjuration magic. While Odric has studied arcane magic, he's a 4th Level Conjuration Wizard/Magic-User, he has always had a fondness for the field of conjuration and summoning and collects any work on the field that he comes across. Thus far, he has a personal collection of 99 books and has feelers out for a new title he's learned about, Summoning From the Lower Planes by Pedagogue Mueller.

Odric is 6' tall, but he stoops, he has occasional tremors in his left hand and walks with a slight limp due to an injury he sustained on horseback in his youth. He is fond of using large words and clicks his tongue on the roof of his mouth while talking. He is also a devout worshipper of Bane and keeps a small shrine to Black Lord in his attic. He closes up shop at 3pm at midweek to perform rites to the God of Tyrrany. He is a widower and has no children, but his nephew Poul visits from time to time. Poul is scribe and has found a solid patron due to his uncle's influence.