Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Emeny abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears long strands of amber and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her blonde hair is lengthy. She is baby faced.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her first spouse was a Crown-heir, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Crown-heir they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Mortician, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and money/treasure

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. She has shaved her head bald. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. She has worked as a Herbalist like her father before her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Herbalist responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman usually wears her brown robe and has her longbow always slung over her shoulder. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her right hand. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Elysande hails from a village terrorized by giants. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Baker.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her white hair is lengthy. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mara studied abroad. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Mayor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1200 pp. Azurite (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a dagger on his belt. His black hair is thinning but still full. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Morthos hails from a village terrorized by illithids. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. 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. Morthos fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and yellow handkerchief worn on his left side. He has wavy brown hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. After coming to the age of reason, Theren took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.