Description: He wears professional attire. He is portly but not overly obese. He has dyed his greying dark red hair a little too much giving a sharp dark red color. His eyes are black.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Dilettante. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Dilettante for hire.

Motivation: He's in love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

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

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Burana was born with her father's beautiful face. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stylist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 pp. Jade (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying east to reunite his family. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his daughter

Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is light but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She wears dull grey sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed hammer, just in case. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. She has gray eyes and a grey hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Silver pearl (110 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: A 4'7" southern woman, she wears a simple violet robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 pp. Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: She wears long strands of emerald and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and she perpetually has her ceremonial dagger ready. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 9000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (20 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Silver ewer (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears professional attire. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 pp.