Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Frouse was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She carries with her a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her brown hair down. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is a great chef.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Naamah grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Naamah. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a hunchback. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 160 gp. Sard (40 gp).

Description: She wears baggy white pantaloons and a tan scarf. She is portly but not overly obese. Her tied-back hair is black. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Nagrette was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Server for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Server responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2200 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, grey cloak. She is physically well-built. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the west to a Animal Trainer, Hadwisa learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a worn and beaten armor. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Willow was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Stableman. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.