Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing a long, black cloak, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is short and blue. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: The child of a Laborer, who enjoyed hunting, Orianna was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Orianna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown vest and prefers yellow and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears her yellow fur up. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born in the west. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. 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: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 gp. White pearl (60 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her fur is short and gray. She has a dull look in her copper eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born in the north. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Quick grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Quick. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 pp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp).

Description: She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a Layabout first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Geva was born the youngest of three triplets. She dropped out of school to support her sick father, and resented it. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp. White pearl (120 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His golden hair is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Nim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has worked as a Blacksmith like his father before him.

Motivation: To be a Sellsword again; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp.