Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. His red hair is braided into rings. His white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in the north to a Mortician, Iados learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Iados was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is greedy; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. Citrine (60 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Susannah was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Expand her business; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sickle with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sickles and daggers. She has golden hair. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her red hair is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Heather lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 pp. 1 Minor magic item.