Description: She wears a blue collared shirt and green skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

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. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tiefling companion (her 'brother'). She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her scarlet crest is lengthy. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Akra lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She likes to wear brown tank tops with red skirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'9" when asserting herself. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Hunter but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. A gifted student she started as a Slave Trader, but she got bored and became a Hunter. She tends to her Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is content; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp).

Description: He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He wears his silver crest down. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 pp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 24000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 pp. Carnelian (50 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 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.

Description: This southern man wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his yellow fur. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his copper eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Flask was born on a far southern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Dyer. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Flask fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.