Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a very tight haircut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Joan was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Joan decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Sage kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears green trousers with brown and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her green crest is thinning but still full. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 110 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Virra alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Virra was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Bonds: Poor, Slave, Enemies, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.