Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Mortician kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pallabar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Amber (120 gp). Moonstone (30 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Zog hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His childhood dream was to be a Cook, but he was a colossal failure. He tends to his Brewer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a tan shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Fibblestib's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with his god.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by beers. Her golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a blue collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Mardnab reached her early adolescence her Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Malachite (13 gp).