Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Server. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. 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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy bronze crest. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a hunchback. Her bronze crest has been sun bleached extensively. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Burana enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Burana and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Paela was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Paela 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. Paela 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. Being a Mayor kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His scarlet crest is heavily combed to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Vrondiss's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vrondiss fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 19000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hadarai studied abroad. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape and is in decent physical shape. His crest is short and red. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2800 sp. Banded agate (12 gp).