Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Artin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Sage. 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. Artin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this western man prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He keeps his blue hair in a pixie cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Thamuz was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Kilia's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. With wild red hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2200 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp).

Description: This southern woman wears a yellow shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A freak accident while working with her Sellsword mother left her crippled. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He takes great joy in being the best Layabout in town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a red coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Nedda lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 sp.