Description: This woman wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Bricklayer mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many brigands want him driven away

Flaws: Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'1". He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His crest, while still mostly rusty, has prominent grey streaks. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 280 gp.