Description: She wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and swords. Her hair is short and white. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 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. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She became a Barkeep soon after.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 9000 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'1". She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a trident. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Williamina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. A true patriot, Havilar would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her top yellow hat.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Chenna was born with her mother's beautiful face. At some point she was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Slave, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Black opal (400 gp).

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a red collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: Born in the north to a Bounty Hunter, Lidda learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She tends to her Bounty Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears violet trousers with brown and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and is pretty ugly. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. His ears are large.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He became a Map Maker soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gifted student she started as a Healer, but she got bored and became a Sculptor. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Selfish. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. His silver hair is long and unkept. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: The child of a Ploughman, who enjoyed hunting, Frouse was taken on many hunting expeditions. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.