Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has moderate length orange fur. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Flame lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 east. After a long history of fighting, Flame and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To be a Butcher again; and doesn't want to be a merchant and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. Citrine (70 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has wavy black hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Vaina was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She wears her white hair down. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. 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 have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 7000 gp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Jet (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sword, but if one is not available she will default to her scythe, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kallista grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Kallista abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Kallista never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: In love, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 4000 sp. Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has a very tight haircut. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A gifted student she started as a Bather, but she got bored and became a Crown-heir. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 3'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her hair is white and very short. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Stylist. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Stylist for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his grey robe. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item.