Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Manea is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the west to a Sage, Manea learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 70 pp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (30 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and sports pastel clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She wears her white fur up. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Bookbinder mother left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Standing 5'11", this man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His black hair is thinning but still full. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Malachite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears long strands of topaz and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Orc in existence. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Grigi has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her crest is gold and very short. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thava was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Forgetful, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 pp.