Description: This late middle aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. She has shaved her head bald. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears black trousers with tan and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts and is in decent physical shape. Her brass crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Hethress liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Deep green spinel (50 gp).

Description: A 3'2" southern man, he very much looks the part of a Painter. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to pay off his debts

Bonds: Job, Family, Poor, Debt. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is short and auburn. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10 pp.