Description: This late middle aged woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat and is in decent physical shape. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

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 has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull tan iron scale mail, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a fancy violet dress. With wild golden hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Jacoba hails from a village terrorized by drow. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Jacoba was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Addict, Lazy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (6 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gray eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Eberk 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 Eberk. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Kathra was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Carpenter. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her head has been shaved. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Rose (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp).