Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a simple grey robe with blue stripes complete with hood. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. 3 Acid flasks.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his blue robe and has his whip always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 sp. Red spinel (160 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is short and silver. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. 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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He very much looks the part of a Painter. His brown hair is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Painter. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Painter for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Elaim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4 Thunderstones.