Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. She is an epitome of beauty. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. 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 is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: He was born in the east. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to tabaxi people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and tends to wear a large blue jacket. She has shaved her head bald. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Arara was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 Mortician. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Healer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Mortician, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He wears a brown vest and prefers tan and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Lewis has worked very hard to control his curse. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Spice Merchant. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the east to a Spice Merchant, Shag learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of a Shoemaker, who enjoyed hunting, Kyle was taken on many hunting expeditions. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Fire opal (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a tan tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Siffress was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Siffress's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and balancing her hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and white robe with the hood down. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Elaim hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Elaim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 380 gp.