Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Through the years after Baelitae was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Baelitae's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, marred by sweets. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: Tomph was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Cleric, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Cleric in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Tomph was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Guard. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a green collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His crest is blue and curly. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. She carries with her a set of shortbows on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She sports black long hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emmeline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a fancy brown dress. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

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. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Melissa reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Unemployed and was forced into it by her family; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 18000 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His crest is brass and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp.