Description: 5'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing a long, tan cloak. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a Glassblower, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sage hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Malquis never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor, In love, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on her left side. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Maynild grew up listening to her father's many stories. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new layabout responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a brown tunic with red highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 sp. Golden pearl (50 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shield with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Beiro was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Beiro was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). 3 Thunderstones.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a bastard sword on her belt. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Vola was born with her father's beautiful face. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Moss agate (6 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Clear bright green emerald (4000 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he usually wears his tan robe and has his falchion always slung over his shoulder. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with his Hunter father left him crippled. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp.