Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'4" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with music. She constantly tries to fill her life with music. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the south to a Architect, Griselda learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Griselda liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She bought a sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 pp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her white hair is well kept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His fur is cut close to his head. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born in the west to a Detective, Shadow learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Through the years after Shadow was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shadow's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He became a Detective soon after.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Debt. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 pp. Coral (130 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Amethyst (130 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Herbalist business.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Merla was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Merla was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Map Maker. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Sard (20 gp). Jet (150 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Pink diamond (4000 gp). Carnelian (20 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and revenge

Ideals: Logical, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2700 pp. Moss agate (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available she will default to her lance. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Nikki was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Rose (50 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Azurite (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.