Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears dull violet sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed hand crossbow, just in case. She has wavy silver hair. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Juliana enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She got into the Shepherd business at a young age. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shepherd for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 190 gp. Golden pearl (150 gp).

Description: This woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her pickaxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her crest is blue and very short. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Phann hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 20 pp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.