Description: 4'11" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She got into the Sailor business at a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Sailor. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Sailor for the past few years.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 pp. Amber (150 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears suspenders and white workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is short and auburn. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her broad white hat.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Bendoo is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Jade (160 gp). Jet (160 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Rose (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. He has wavy blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Cory lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Cory was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's also a talented Seamstress, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Seamstress again; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Coral (140 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His cinnamon fur is heavily combed to the left. His copper eyes peer out from beneath his feathered pastel hat.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His childhood dream was to be a Sellsword, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to be a sellsword again

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Family, Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Performer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Decarabia 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. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Performer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this southern woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. With wild auburn hair. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her broad black hat.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Nella was born with her mother's beautiful face. 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. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Eldon and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 9000 gp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). White opal (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.