Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. She keeps her blue crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the east were limited. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Mortician but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a tan shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Anverth was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 6'0". She wears an entirely grey suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and her gloved hand is found clutching a greataxe. Her white hair is braided into rings. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 110 gp. Jade (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: An older woman who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her rusty crest up. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Findex was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Findex was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Now she works as a singing tutor during her time off.

Motivation: Many giants want her driven away; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Alston was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alston decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white fur is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her broad brown hat.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.