Description: This woman is very fat, and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her black hair is well kept. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a great chef.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Salanop fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a violet shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His white hair is braided into rings. He has brown eyes and a violet hat with a tan feather.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Marshal mother left him crippled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 4000 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.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Lidda was born the youngest of three triplets. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a red cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nora never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'0". She wears long strands of aquamarine and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born in a small forest village. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. She has no hair. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older woman who wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and white robe with the hood down, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ahinar was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Gardener. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 10000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp).