Description: She tends to wear a large white jacket. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is long and red with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small white clips. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Emen was born with her mother's beautiful face. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ekk was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 11000 sp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has red hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

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 he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: Born in the south to a Bather, Morkral learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Tana was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Aristocrat, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Aristocrat in service of a powerful lord somewhere. In her youth she was a Bookbinder, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and likes to wear black tank tops with white skirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Mayor, but she got bored and became a Sculptor. 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's in love; and balancing her hectic life and new sculptor responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 11000 sp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and is pretty ugly. He wears his black hair up. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp.