Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and is pretty ugly. Her crest is rusty and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Hunter was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Anne took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up nunchaku and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Flaws: Addict, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An older man who wears just a tan suit, he is not a threatening figure. He has shaved his head bald. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Ahvain was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with his Ploughman father left him crippled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sculptor

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

Possessions: 500 sp. Silver pearl (100 gp).