Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier. Her hair is dark red and curly. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shax grew up listening to her father's many stories. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (130 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a grey and blue robe with the hood down. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Bricklayer business.

History: Born to a Laborer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and doesn't want to be a bricklayer and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. Efferil enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Efferil was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black shirt with thin green vertical stripes and white pants. His crest is blue and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a Glassblower, his father struggled to pay the bills. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is physically well-built. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. The war was a terrible time for him, and Uthemar does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Uthemar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 60 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).