Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'4". She wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. After a long history of fighting, Akta and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 7000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears professional attire. With wild auburn hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tattered old clothes. Her auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Joan has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy, Antagonistic. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Rosalind is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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, Rosalind is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Azurite (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nuraval studied abroad. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed greatsword, just in case. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

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 sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 pp. Jet (130 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Amber (130 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Jade (130 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). White opal (600 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Jade (130 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).