Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He is physically well-built. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a black scarf. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She wears a green coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head, and carries shields. She has done her best to style her purple hair to look like a famous performer. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the north. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Kallista was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kallista fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 22000 cp. Moss agate (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: She typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 4'11", this man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Masseuse they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Tanner, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 390 gp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: She wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and green pants. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her warhammer, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her orange fur is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her childhood dream was to be a Stylist, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and balancing her hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

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

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His golden hair is braided into rings. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears professional attire. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Anakis was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Obsidian (7 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp).