Description: This woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: Silaqui hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 3000 cp. Jade (130 gp). Amber (130 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Oskar isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is portly but not overly obese. Her green crest is greasy and uncared for. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Sensitive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this eastern man sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is short and white. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He worked as a nervous Spy and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Spy.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spy responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

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

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed warhammer, just in case. He has moderate length brown hair. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 9000 sp. Eye agate (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Jet (150 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. Her half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Armara grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her childhood dream was to be a Brewer, but she was a colossal failure. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 3'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and black handkerchief worn on his left side. He has golden hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: She wears a brown collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished longbow as well. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Margery fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 pp.