Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a colorful flower in her blue hair. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Mastema hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has no hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Military, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

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

Possessions: 140 gp. Moonstone (30 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She usually wears her blue robe and has her shortbow always slung over her shoulder. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Myathethil took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up shortbow and armor she uses now. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 90 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).