Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 pp. Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She likes to wear white tank tops with brown skirt. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She is baby faced.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2400 gp. Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her brown hair is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. 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, Barbena is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Barbena was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dyer. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Buckler.

Description: He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly nunchakus and ceremonial daggers. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Ribbles enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 600 gp.