Description: This woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her long brown fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her ears are large.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has a crush on the local fisher

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Adventurer born in the past three hundred years. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 50 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Bellfounder who has hired him part-time. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He got into the Bellfounder business at a young age. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a unemployed again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 220 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Eggren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her scarlet crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1800 sp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: This northern man dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a white coat with brown slacks. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying north to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears professional attire. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Norman lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with his Merchant mother left him crippled. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: An older woman who wears a white armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Cora was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is content

Flaws: Mundane, Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 pp. Golden pearl (150 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a Actor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the west to a Actor, Thiala learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 700 sp.