Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with black slacks. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 70 gp. Iolite (50 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tattered old clothes. His tied-back hair is blonde. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Standing 6'1", this man wears a black shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and green pants. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his broad black hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Flogg studied abroad. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has shaved her head bald. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Althaea wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Althaea was born with her father's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Silver pearl (140 gp).

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Gubrash abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is cut short. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Thokk grew up listening to his father's many stories. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. During his travels, Thokk and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Thokk discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Thokk fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears just a brown suit. His beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Adventurer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with violet slacks. Her dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 60 pp.