Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Birel was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Birel was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Hunter; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Rose (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Phann is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Phann was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Stylist. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has auburn hair. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. After a long history of fighting, Ella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has moderate length dark red hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Melech embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the east were limited. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Silver ewer (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.