Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Anastrianna was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 cp. Iolite (40 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an entirely black suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her dark red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. 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, Osah is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Osah was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Passionate, Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears blue trousers with white and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She carries a battered shortspear and tarnished rapier as well. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a Animal Trainer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She's also a talented Carpenter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears a colorful flower in her yellow fur. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a pastel collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has green eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. At some point he was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Smoking was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this southern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Cimer hails from a village terrorized by drow. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Cimer alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and yellow handkerchief worn on her left side. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Chaedi is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Chaedi was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Navigator they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Servant, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Servant and was forced into it by her family; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a brown shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her fur is beige and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Pelt lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear flannel. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Erdan alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 80 gp.