Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Mardred was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 60. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born to a Miller, his father struggled to pay the bills. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull tan iron scale mail. She keeps her brown fur in a flapper bob. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Trail is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gifted student she started as a Bowyer, but she got bored and became a Stableman. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Trail fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a brown vest and prefers white and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She takes great joy in being the best Bookbinder in town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. After a long history of fighting, Avice and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 gp.