Description: This slender woman stands about 4'11". She wears a tan tunic with brown highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Layabout but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Arara 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She keeps her long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Cook who has hired her part-time. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Cook hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Aquamarine (1500 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She tends to wear a large black jacket. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Shoemaker. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and is pretty ugly. He has moderate length black hair. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Aramil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: An older woman who wears long strands of emerald and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, she is not a threatening figure. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Salanop will drive conversation. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Salanop was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Mortician. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Extrovert, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 78. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Elven compassion.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears skinny pants and wears a blue and black robe with the hood down. He wears his blonde hair down. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Broce took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 800 gp. Star rose quartz (80 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears an entirely black suit with red socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is an amazing painter.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. 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 Map Maker. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her blue hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines white.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp.