Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her nunchaku with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She got into the Fletcher business at a young age. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Fletcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Fletcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She's also a talented Gardener, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He has a hunchback. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 sp. Malachite (12 gp).

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She carries with her a set of kukris on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Hatae hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, and he perpetually has his scimitar ready. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Quarion was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Lorilla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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, Lorilla is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In her 13th 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 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 loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.