Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She carries a battered lance and tarnished pickaxe as well. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born in the west. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Revenge; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She carries with her a set of ceremonial daggers, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Adventurer business.

History: Born to a Beggar, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears an entirely grey suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the west to a Miner, Heather learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His crest is short and red. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Valorean was born the youngest of three triplets. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Unemployed and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Radomir lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp).

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, and he perpetually has his scimitar ready. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Quarion was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She keeps her brass crest in a flapper bob. She is baby faced.

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. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

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. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Hedonist, Impulsive, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 60 pp.