Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length silver crest. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. 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. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a tan vest and prefers black and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has wavy blonde hair. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She married young, but lost her spouse to illithids. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Black opal (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is cut close to his head. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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: Seeks redemption; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and prefers to wear flannel. Her blue hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Lerissa 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 Lerissa. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 700 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She's also a talented Armorer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is typically in his Adventurer uniform. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Tharivol hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He worked as a nervous Adventurer and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Carter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hammers and shortspears. His hair is brown and curly. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Being a Merchant 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 has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His red fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Architect but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His first spouse was a Priest, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1400 sp.