Description: This woman wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. She has shaved her head bald. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gifted student she started as a Armorer, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 900 sp. Pink pearl (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He likes to wear tan tank tops with brown pants. His hair is auburn and curly. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ribbles does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear flannel. He has shaved his head bald. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Berrian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 13000 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is golden and curly. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2100 gp. Jet (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).