Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Vanchu was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Vanchu alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Vanchu was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2100 gp. Jade (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it and is in decent physical shape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Dûsh hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. 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: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Dûsh never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Tagga's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair is short and chestnut. She has green eyes and a grey hat with a green feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Balifra was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She worked as a nervous Sellsword and found it very stressful. She struck the Sellsword job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 cp. Jet (80 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90 pp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A 4'0" northern man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dalgal studied abroad. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting orcs, the young Dalgal began to lead the lost caravan. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. Her head has been shaved. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She bought a flail and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a black coat with green slacks. She has wavy auburn hair. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: Anbera was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 west. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; 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: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'5". She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Knight. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bimpnottin grew up listening to her father's many stories. 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 Knight. Recently the stress of being a Knight has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: She is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1900 gp. Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Rose (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp).