Description: This tall, slender man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'10" when asserting herself. With wild red hair. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Kathra hails from a village terrorized by illithids. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sage hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her ears are large.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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, Jacoba is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Marshal hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She wears her black hair up. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady silver eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Astaro isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 4 Antitoxin. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears just a white suit. He sports a flattop hair cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Nazdûg is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He worked as a nervous Architect and found it very stressful. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with black slacks. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Quilla was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Apothecary. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears tattered old clothes. Her long bronze crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. 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 was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His rusty crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp).