Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A gifted student she started as a Marshal, but she got bored and became a Merchant. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 220 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears brown trousers with tan and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her long orange fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Leaf lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 4000 sp. Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp).

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He carries with him a set of sais, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has styled his purple hair well, parting it to the left. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Crown-heir profession.

History: Born in the north to a Baker, Melech learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Crown-heir, but he got bored and became a Baker. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Sard (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Farmer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dondon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Orianna grew up listening to her mother's many stories. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is red and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Decarabia embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Decarabia was born the youngest of three triplets. Her first spouse was a Beggar, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp.