Description: She is lean but muscular and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. She has styled her copper crest well, parting it to the right. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. A gifted student she started as a Cartwright, but she got bored and became a Mercenary. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 60 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a grey collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is white and curly. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Sannl hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: She was born into a rich family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Fisher. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Server

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

Possessions: 290 gp. Onyx (30 gp).

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a very tight haircut. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Rimple was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 70 gp. 3 Holy water.