Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She carries with her a set of longbows on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Helgret is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1200 sp. Fire opal (400 gp). Rose (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears tattered old clothes, marred by teas. With bright brown hair. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 19000 cp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shield, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a red shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Chay has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is content; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a fancy violet dress. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Egelina was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, 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 Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Clerebold abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: 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.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Gennal hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He got into the Stylist business at a young age. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stylist. He tends to his Stylist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She carries with her a set of whips, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her red hair is cut short. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents enrolled her in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. 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. Mardnab fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 pp. 1 Minor magic item.