Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and she perpetually has her lance ready. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gifted student she started as a Animal Trainer, but she got bored and became a Mercenary. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She 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 physically well-built. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Ploughman, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Baelitae was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Tawna enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Lia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. 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: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 26000 sp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a grey vest and prefers white and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has moderate length black hair. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Emmeline never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 40 gp. Jade (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This southern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She takes great joy in being the best Layabout in town.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her childhood dream was to be a Ploughman, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Layabout like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 pp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Adventurer who has hired him part-time. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ar-Gul is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His first spouse was a Sailor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 60 gp. Citrine (80 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mercenary who has hired her part-time. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Vani 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. Vani decided she wanted neither the life of her mother 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 martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp. Pink pearl (130 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a violet shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and white pants. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 44. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Ahinar 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Ahinar was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.