Description: This younger middle-aged woman prefers to wear flannel, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2200 sp. 1 Thunderstones. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Theren was born with his father's beautiful face. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Theren was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears dull black sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed lance, just in case. She has done her best to style her purple hair to look like a famous performer. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Verin was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She struck the Beggar job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. The war was a terrible time for her, and Mara does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her lavender fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in the west. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 24000 cp. Jasper (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. 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: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with red colored cloaks and clothing. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. A true patriot, Fulbar would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Fulbar was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fulbar 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 Fulbar. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Banded agate (9 gp).