Description: This slender woman stands about 3'11". She wears a grey tunic with brown highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Helja was born the youngest of three triplets. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple yellow robe with white stripes complete with hood. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a large green jacket. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the west were limited. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Malachite (9 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She very much looks the part of a Fletcher. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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 is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Fletcher. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Performer again.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Oppleby is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Oppleby hails from a village terrorized by illithids. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 60 gp.