Description: This light-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a Courier, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Mara was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a shortspear on his belt. His hair is golden and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3000 gp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His crest is scarlet and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A true patriot, Tarhun would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Tarhun was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this northern man wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a flail on his belt. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her childhood dream was to be a Mayor, but she was a colossal failure. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Ronwe never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Job, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 390 pp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Malachite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.