Description: This slender woman stands about 5'8". She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. She worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. Being a Mortician kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 10000 cp. Azurite (5 gp). Amber (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She wears her red fur down. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear black tank tops with tan skirt. Her copper crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Nuthra was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Ranger, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Ranger in service of a powerful lord somewhere. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: To reunite with her old friends; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 900 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp).

Description: She wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time, and carries monstrous two handed axes. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is a Priest first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in the east to a Priest, Shava learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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 has worked as a Priest like her mother before her.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has shaved his head bald. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Don is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Uraim has worked very hard to control his curse. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a brown vest and prefers black and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is short and blonde. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Kilia reached her early adolescence her Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kilia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2600 gp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his blue hair in a flapper bob. This black eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He tends to his Shoemaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. Her red crest is knotted and matted. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Obsidian (9 gp).