Description: This light-skinned female prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is cut close to her head. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. A true patriot, Lia would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her childhood dream was to be a Dyer, but she was a colossal failure. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 cp. Coral (80 gp).

Description: He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor, and carries swords. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries with him a set of halberds, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His fur is cut close to his head. His eyes are green.

Personality: Serpent speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Serpent was born with his father's beautiful face. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears an entirely white suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Lagazi took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up halberd and armor she uses now. She bought a halberd and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She comes from a rich western family. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Theirastra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She usually wears her red robe and has her sai always slung over her shoulder, marred by teas. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sailor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 120 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born in the west to a Stylist, Nala learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His golden hair is cut short. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. He got money to start a business from the gang present in town. He is greatly indebted to them.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his club, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Mindartis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Dilettante 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 feels kind of lost in life; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.