Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her blue crest is unkempt and raggedy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She worked as a nervous Marshal and found it very stressful. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care, marred by sweets. She has a very tight haircut. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her rapier with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Vepar is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born in the east. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a shield on his belt. His fur is gray and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady copper eyes.

Personality: Dynamic wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Aristocrat, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dynamic fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'6". He wears a simple brown robe with green stripes complete with hood. His red fur is still thick. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Spear will drive conversation. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born into a rich family. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He struck the Dyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp.