Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her brown fur is heavily combed to the left. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: The child of a Soapmaker, who enjoyed hunting, River was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 120 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a white coat with brown slacks. She is an epitome of beauty. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Matilda took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up longsword and armor she uses now. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a ceremonial dagger on his belt. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Oloric grew up listening to his father's many stories. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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. Oloric fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His scarlet crest is knotted and matted. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Zedaar was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1500 sp.