Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are amber and beady.

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: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He worked as a nervous Glassblower and found it very stressful. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His gold crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has a crush on the local cook

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her silver hair is well kept. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 17000 cp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears just a tan suit. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is still thick. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the east to a Miner, Vistra learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Miner. She tends to her Miner job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and 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

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his red robe. His hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Tiefling in existence. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hugolina grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Human Aristocrat who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'0" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. Sporting a chestnut mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Herleva was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Herleva alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Minor magic item.