Description: This woman wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a greataxe on her belt, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She got into the Ruler business at a young age. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She struck the Ruler job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 6000 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Rose (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western man wears a yellow vest and prefers green and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is short and chestnut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has shaved her head bald. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she wants to get laid

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is physically well-built. His red crest is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Gifted, Logical, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 2000 gp. Peridot (50 gp). Blue diamond (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Jasmine 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. Jasmine 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. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 170 pp. Coral (50 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp).