Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: Manea wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Adept, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... Manea enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Barber they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Merchant, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is mildly Half-Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and to be a gardener again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems and is in decent physical shape. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Pennie's homeland. Pennie decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. She wears her rusty crest down. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 110 pp.