Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears professional attire. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Pennie lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 90 pp. Coral (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has styled her red fur well, parting it to the right. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 gp. Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears bulky white painted plate armor, and carries bows. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eran fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (9 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Enidda has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aelar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aelar. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and to protect his home

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Guardian. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man wears a black vest and prefers blue and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black crest. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nithther studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Laborer. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Laborer responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has moderate length silver hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. Her hair is short and blonde. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Agatha was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears bulky white painted plate armor. Sporting a black mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student she started as a Scribe, but she got bored and became a Shipwright. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1000 sp.