Description: This slender woman stands about 3'10". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Anbera was born with her mother's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 90 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

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

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is portly but not overly obese. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. His silver hair is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Don grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Don. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Butcher for the past few years.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 210 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small tan clips. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is cut close to his head. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Tomi took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up scythe and armor he uses now. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. His dark red hair is knotted and matted. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Purson was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Purson was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Courier they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Fortune-teller, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Paela was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Paela 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. Paela 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. Being a Mayor kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp.