Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears white trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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. Being a Painter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her yellow fur is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines copper.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Jeweler who has hired her part-time. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Right-Handed was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She got into the Masseuse business at a young age. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to be a painter again

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: In love, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. Blue sapphire (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and she perpetually has her club ready. She has wavy white hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Jet (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. After coming to the age of reason, Serpent took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Kasdeya liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Kasdeya never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Mundane, Selfish, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She carries with her a set of whips on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Interpreter born in the past three hundred years. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. While she appears to be a normal Half-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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Interpreter for hire.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 sp. Blue quartz (16 gp).