Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With wild white hair. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is a great chef.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Lia's homeland. Lia decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. A true patriot, Juliana would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She bought a club and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair is black and curly. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Zed alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Jet (40 gp). Coral (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Laucian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 pp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.