Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a simple black robe with violet stripes complete with hood. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has white eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. A true patriot, Markosian would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is physically well-built. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 160 gp. Hematite (9 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He carries with him a set of greatswords on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has wavy white hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Aym lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aym grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aym. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Amber (100 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).