Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Mardnab hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Layabout work with an outfit from a few towns over. Layabout work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 110 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (50 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp).

Description: She wears just a blue suit. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents enrolled her in a Bard school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 360 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 180 gp. Star ruby (600 gp). Obsidian (11 gp).