Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a very tight haircut. She has blue eyes and a red hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is a Doctor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Merla was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Merla's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has achieved small success as a Doctor.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 50000 cp. Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her silver hair is cut short. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a husky man, who tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bertram studied abroad. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Dragonborn activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dragonborn doctor. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Racist, Fearful. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 gp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Rose (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears baggy violet pantaloons and a green scarf. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The war was a terrible time for her, and Mary does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. 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 feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a axe, but if one is not available she will default to her longbow. Her hair is golden and curly. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Dell was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a simple brown robe with green stripes complete with hood. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1900 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and white robe with the hood down, and he perpetually has his flail ready. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is an amazing painter.

History: Nicholas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Butcher. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

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

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. 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 son.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Norman will drive conversation. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born into a rich family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 sp.