Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With wild red hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the south to a Sailor, Elama learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Elama abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp).

Description: This northern woman wears a red shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has wavy black hair. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Canary diamond (5000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Peridot (70 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears an entirely white suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has wavy silver hair. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 pp. Black opal (1100 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Amber (90 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). White opal (1100 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. 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: A deep hatred of illithids; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 5'3", this man wears a tan shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is golden and very short. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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: He was born on a small isolated farm. Varis liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 11000 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Onyx (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a blue vest and prefers tan and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 pp. Citrine (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Amber (90 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Map Maker for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp).