Description: She wears professional attire. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He is physically well-built. He has wavy silver hair. His red eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Melech has worked very hard to control his curse. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. Citrine (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Peridot (60 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her hair is blue and very short. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Sailor father left her crippled. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". She wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a flail, but if one is not available she will default to her spear, and her gloved hand is found clutching a spear. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She worked as a nervous Sellsword and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Sellsword like her father before her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2000 gp. Azurite (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Rose (70 gp). Coral (130 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Pink diamond (6000 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered gnolls who tried to eat his hand. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and crossbows. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. After coming to the age of reason, Karash took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.