Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Performer for hire.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman prefers to wear flannel. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has green eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. 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: She was raised in a forest tribe. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Sarah took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up kukri and armor she uses now. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are green.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Being a Hunter 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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Standing 3'1", this woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. 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 to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 34000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears a red broad hat and red clothes. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Healer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she sports yellow clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Birel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Birel was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Jet (160 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2500 gp. White opal (1300 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears her red hair down. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born to a Map Maker, her father struggled to pay the bills. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.