Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Joan was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Shoemaker, but she got bored and became a Herbalist. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears professional attire. His gold crest is knotted and matted. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He takes great joy in being the best Farmer in town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Farmer. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This western man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Henry is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Henry studied abroad. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears skinny pants and wears a violet and black robe with the hood down. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His eyes are green and catlike.

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

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her lavender fur is long and unkept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Drifting alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a blue scarf. She carries a battered axe and tarnished crossbow as well. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. After coming to the age of reason, Snafû took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Snafû was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 120 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.