Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Glassblower but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a axe, but if one is not available she will default to her rapier. She carries a battered axe and tarnished rapier as well. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

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. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Moss agate (10 gp). Sard (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, and she perpetually has her bow ready. She has a very tight haircut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Lia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has achieved small success as a Ploughman.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing her hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue sapphire (600 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'9" when asserting herself. She sports golden long hair. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, blue shirt, and white tie. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Military, Debt. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 390 gp. Citrine (60 gp). Rose (60 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Wella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 700 gp. Eye agate (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a violet shirt, with a grey mid length skirt with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair is black and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 3200 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Azurite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'10", this woman wears a simple grey robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Rosalind is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair is still thick. Her black eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Shax was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Shax's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2400 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.