Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. After coming to the age of reason, Verin 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 guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 310 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Zircon (60 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'8" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. She has slicked back golden hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Barber work with an outfit from a few towns over. Barber work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Coral (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner, and carries lances. His silver hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Banded mail.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her white crest is heavily combed to the left. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Burana is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fisher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Burana was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has no hair. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Halander is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20000 sp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Carter. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly pickaxes and shortspears. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She got into the Carter business at a young age. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Grai grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Grai. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 sp. Citrine (30 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 5000 cp. Jade (110 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears his black crest down. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mason who has hired him part-time. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Kriv was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kriv decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 340 gp. 3 Smokesticks.