Description: She wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is physically well-built. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Barbena hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 8000 gp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her tied-back hair is red. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Valida lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 11000 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson white hat.

Personality: Jasmine is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

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. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. 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. Jasmine fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sard (30 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 6000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She got into the Guard business at a young age. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She struck the Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver ewer (80 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears an entirely red suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has brown eyes and a red hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Pirithin never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, In love, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 5000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 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: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 16000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (70 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).