Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears her auburn hair up. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a longbow, but if one is not available she will default to her glaive. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 17000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears an entirely black suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's also a talented Miner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Job, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He uses divination through singing.

History: Roger was born with his father's beautiful face. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Roger was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1900 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). 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 is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has moderate length copper crest. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Ildrex hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His fur is black and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1400 pp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Coral (160 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Jet (160 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Jet (160 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Amber (160 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Iolite (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'0". She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Architect who has hired her part-time. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has achieved small success as a Architect.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Azurite (7 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her auburn hair is well kept. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, her father struggled to pay the bills. Aline liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp. Citrine (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His crest is red, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Bidreked abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.