Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She is baby faced.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

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 always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Uraim 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 Uraim. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep green spinel (50 gp). Malachite (5 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Buckler. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a white costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1100 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Black opal (1600 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears dull green sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. After a long history of fighting, Lerissa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 15000 gp. Hematite (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Onyx (50 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has black crest. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barrister. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Expand his business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Slave Trader. He is physically well-built. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Dabbledob lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her golden hair is well kept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Jarana was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Through the years after Jarana was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Jarana's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has moderate length bronze crest. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his small green hat.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and 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: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears professional attire. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has wavy chestnut hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

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

Possessions: Just what you see.