Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is brown and curly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Mella lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When Mella reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. She wears her brass crest down. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Spy father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: 3'5" and muscular, this northern man is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 sp. Chalcedony (20 gp).