Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 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: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

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

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her head has been shaved. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a Sellsword, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'4". She has the majority of her body covered in plate, and her gloved hand is found clutching a axe. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Xanaphia was born with her father's beautiful face. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Xanaphia has worked very hard to control her curse. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. Red garnet (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Barber profession.

History: Zunn lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Painter. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. He has no hair. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Amnon never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Military, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She keeps her long black crest kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Perra will drive conversation. Perra enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She found a children's book about a Dragonborn Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Azurite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears a fancy brown dress, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is white and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Emerald (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dull tan sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scimitar, just in case. He carries a battered morningstar and tarnished scimitar as well. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Erevan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Erevan was born with his father's beautiful face. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).