Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a green scarf. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Family, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 cp. Azurite (5 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her club with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has brown hair. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: A 5'6" eastern woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her red hair is wavy and long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ootah was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Veloptima lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Actor they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Ruler, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Cairn's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Cairn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.