Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He carries a battered whip and tarnished longbow as well. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longbow.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black star sapphire (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). White opal (900 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is white and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Armorer father left her crippled. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears dull blue sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed flail, just in case. She has wavy red hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Ilanis was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ilanis decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She dresses like a well dressed Map Maker does. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 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: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has achieved small success as a Map Maker.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. After a long history of fighting, Merla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Jade (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is black and curly. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a violet feather.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Falkrunn lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Falkrunn 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Falkrunn was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp).

Description: Standing 6'6", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop crest cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Arjhan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His red fur is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Silent has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 300 pp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Jet (130 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Jet (130 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Black opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.