Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her silver eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is blonde and curly. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: In love, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his long green crest kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Kriv hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3000 gp. Pink diamond (4000 gp). Amber (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.