Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a rapier, but if one is not available she will default to her dagger. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents enrolled her in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she usually wears her blue robe and has her mace always slung over her shoulder. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Chaedi enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Chaedi and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is long and unkept. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her tied-back hair is white. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her small black hat.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sellsword business.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. 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: Seeks redemption; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.