Description: This slender woman stands about 5'3". She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she has a crush on the local soapmaker

Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Bertram was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His childhood dream was to be a Priest, but he was a colossal failure. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Brewer for hire.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is baby faced.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Orsik was born the youngest of three triplets. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Nella was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears bulky red painted plate armor. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: 3'0" and muscular, this eastern woman wears long strands of topaz and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

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

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her red crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Pacifist, Joker. Flaws: Disease, PTSD, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.