Description: 6'6" and muscular, this western man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He has wavy scarlet crest. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. After a long history of fighting, Kaladan and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears just a tan suit. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Meriele was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Meriele was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 90 pp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Amber (50 gp).

Description: An older woman who has the majority of her body covered in plate, she is not a threatening figure. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Rosamund is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Barkeep they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Priest, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, grey shirt, and violet tie. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp).