Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with red slacks. She has dyed her greying lavender fur a little too much giving a sharp lavender color. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Seamstress. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Seamstress hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She is portly but not overly obese. Her fur is gray and curly. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. 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 has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many giants want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (90 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fortune-teller. She has black hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born in the east to a Fortune-teller, Avice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. With wild brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Eleanor grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Eleanor. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp).