Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. The war was a terrible time for her, and Thea does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Thea hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He tends to his Sage job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

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

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears pastel trousers with white and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His fur, while still mostly beige, has prominent grey streaks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Gale and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Guardian. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is wearing a long, white cloak. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has green eyes and a white hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and doesn't want to be a ruler and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 36000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.