Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her feathered blue hat.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a simple brown robe with tan stripes complete with hood. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Marshal. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Rosalind was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and to be a bather again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His dark red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Skamos speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Skamos was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Barbarian, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Barbarian in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Through the years after Skamos was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Skamos's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Skamos and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is an amazing painter.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. At some point she was captured by giants and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mortician who has hired her part-time. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Gifted from a young age, Irann studied abroad. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mortician. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and balancing her hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Red spinel (70 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 is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). 1 Full Plate.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He likes to wear grey tank tops with black pants. He has a hunchback. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Taklinn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 340 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with green slacks. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. The war was a terrible time for her, and Donella does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Healer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 pp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Jet (60 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his brass crest in a flapper bob. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and many orcs want him driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 50 gp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.