Description: She wears black trousers with grey and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'8" when asserting herself. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Engong enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Engong was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fortune-teller hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears green trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Navigator. She struck the Navigator job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Carpenter and found it very stressful. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Carpenter and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he desires power and/or immortality

Bonds: Job, Military, Religious, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She likes to wear brown tank tops with yellow skirt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sarah hails from a village terrorized by illithids. After coming to the age of reason, Sarah took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate.