Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Mella enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Zircon (30 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. His green eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the south. At some point he was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His crest is bronze, silky, and of moderate length. He has gold eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Roofer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 29000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Bucklal wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warlock, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He got into the Priest business at a young age. He found a children's book about a Halfling Warlock who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

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

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing. He has moderate length brown hair. He has green eyes and a yellow hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. The war was a terrible time for him, and Clerebold does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears just a brown suit. Her black fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Three grew up listening to her father's many stories. 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: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp).

Description: 4'1" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Werydd was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Insane, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her parents were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Ilanis hails from a village terrorized by orcs. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Ilanis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.