Description: This tall, slender woman wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sword, but if one is not available she will default to her dagger. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Tenena is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Tenena lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tenena fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'7". She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and her gloved hand is found clutching a greatsword. Her black hair is still thick. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. After a long history of fighting, Gorga and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. White pearl (130 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Jet (130 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her golden hair is cut short. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born in the north to a Herbalist, Helja learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Helja never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Family, Job, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Travok and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.