Description: She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 290 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is typically in her Spice Merchant uniform. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Myathethil learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 gp. Peridot (40 gp). Jade (120 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears long strands of emerald and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 pp. Citrine (80 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Moonstone (80 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. 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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

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

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 30000 cp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp).

Description: She has a missing right arm. She prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Barber born in the past three hundred years. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Sybil hails from a village terrorized by drow. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She's also a talented Carter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 21000 sp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tan trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has silver hair. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in a small plains village. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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: A deep hatred of drow; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has white hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her first spouse was a Farmer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 260 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Interpreter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.