Description: 3'5" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, red shirt, and blue tie. Her hair is short and silver. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a Scribe, her father struggled to pay the bills. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Veloptima fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 sp. Amber (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This northern woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. 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 trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and red handkerchief worn on her left side. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She found a children's book about a Halfling Fighter who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Rurik was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Rurik was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This man wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. His white fur is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Butcher born in the past three hundred years. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He tends to his Butcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40 pp.