Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She carries with her a set of crossbows, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Nedda was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Sard (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Gorga enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Gorga took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 6000 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Howard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Howard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 gp. Jet (120 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Emerald (700 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Grai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She worked as a nervous Stylist and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Stylist like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 pp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Rose (30 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Jade (140 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Brown diamond (6000 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Citrine (30 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Coral (140 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has done his best to style his cinnamon fur to look like a famous performer. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a very tight haircut. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bellfounder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Debt. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Coral (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Peridot (70 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp).