Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is wearing a long, black cloak. Her hair is black and curly. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Military, Guardian. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'5" when asserting himself. His crest is silver and curly. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Dazzazn abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a brown vest and prefers blue and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Helja hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Helja fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his white hair down. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents enrolled him in a Commoner school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 20 gp.