Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a fancy blue dress. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: Meriele is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Meriele was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Engraver. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the west to a Slave Trader, Gadreel learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Gadreel was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Slave Trader. She struck the Slave Trader job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has wavy silver hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. After coming to the age of reason, Traki took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Coral (150 gp). Jade (150 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp).