Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Vaina has worked very hard to control her curse. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

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

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and quarterstaffs. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. The war was a terrible time for him, and Duergath 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 several months after his mother was called into army service. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Fortune-teller for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Iolite (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Onyx (70 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Alston was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alston decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has achieved small success as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.