Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has moderate length golden hair. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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, Valida is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Valida grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Azurite (16 gp). Jet (50 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This southern man is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She carries with her a set of scimitars, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 70 gp.