Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her purple hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Bryseis hails from a village terrorized by drow. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Bryseis was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and revenge

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Jade (110 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears professional attire. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born to a Bounty Hunter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. She has worked as a Farmer like her mother before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Poor, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He worked as a nervous Painter and found it very stressful. He has taken up work as a Painter and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: He wears a red coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Healer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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: Disciplined, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Amber (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears tattered old clothes. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 enjoys reading and quiet.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Buckler.