Description: This northern woman is renowned for her bright green dresses and hats. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her eyes are likewise silver. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A 3'1" northern man, he sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His brown hair is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. His hair is chestnut and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished man wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Himo was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She keeps her long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Jade has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and doesn't want to be a mason and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.