Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. She has wavy silver hair. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for her, and Valida does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Priest work with an outfit from a few towns over. Priest work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Priest for hire.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Shipwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 80 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His white hair is cut short. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 6'4" northern man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is red and very short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the north. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2200 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Jade (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Barkeep work with an outfit from a few towns over. Barkeep work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a tan coat, and she perpetually has her greataxe ready. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is a great chef.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pyntle fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 21000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his cinnamon fur in a pixie cut. He has copper eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Drifting alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Jet (100 gp). Citrine (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. 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 short and blonde. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a tan costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His hair is silver and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Healer’s kit.