Description: This late middle aged woman wears a blue shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and green pants and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She takes great joy in being the best Navigator in town.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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. 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: She feels threatened by others; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 6000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a white cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His red hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Spy for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He refers to his adoptive father 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: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 pp. Emerald (500 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). White pearl (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears a tan shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has a hunchback. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has violet eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She found a children's book about a Gnome Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 7000 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering his clean studded leather, and is pretty ugly. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Trey was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Trey alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 7000 gp. Zircon (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rose (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with grey slacks. His black hair is singed and shortened. He has red eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 8000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 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.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her red hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Puyet was born with her father's beautiful face. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered drow who tried to eat her hand. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Puyet was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Fire opal (600 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Eye agate (11 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. 1 Minor magic item.