Description: This dark-skinned female wears professional attire. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Performer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His red hair is still thick. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Târz was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He became a Detective soon after.

Motivation: To protect his home; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman is dressed in an above average manner. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 gp. Peridot (70 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 6'4" northern man, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He has brass crest. He has red eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Kriv was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Fletcher. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 70 pp. Onyx (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. With wild white hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Grai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Grai 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. Grai decided she wanted neither the life of her mother 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. After a long history of fighting, Grai and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 70 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).