Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a tight violet one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her hair is golden and very short. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Mortician for the past few years.

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: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Sard (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Azurite (11 gp). White opal (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she tends to wear a large black jacket. She wears a colorful flower in her brass crest. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 55. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bathin grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Bathin was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Logical, Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is a Spy first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. A true patriot, Nalral would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Nalral liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To be a Unemployed again.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 290 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His fur is lavender and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His beige fur has been sun bleached extensively. His copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 80 pp. Eye agate (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Coral (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She likes to wear yellow tank tops with red skirt. She has slicked back golden hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Williamina enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 6000 sp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.