Description: This woman is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a colorful flower in her copper crest. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Sora was born with her father's beautiful face. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 5000 gp. Aquamarine (200 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Moss agate (14 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 woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 pp. Moonstone (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 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.

Description: An older man who wears bulky red painted plate armor, he is not a threatening figure. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Oren alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 10000 gp. White opal (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Jade (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Rose (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a brown scarf, she is not a threatening figure. Her fur is beige and very short. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp).

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries a battered flail and tarnished dagger as well. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the east to a Dyer, Aerdeth learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Dyer. He became a Dyer soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing a long, black cloak. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. After coming to the age of reason, Biri 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 ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Jeweler for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, In love, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 pp.