Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a grey vest and prefers brown and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1200 sp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Amber (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a white cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving 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, Ownka is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Painter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Silver ewer (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 60 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Bookbinder does. He is physically well-built. He has no hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. The war was a terrible time for him, and Norman does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Norman was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shield with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. He is baby faced.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Aerdeth has worked very hard to control his curse. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Mercenary they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Server, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 800 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.