Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a fancy grey suit. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Red garnet (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. Her hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: She is a Shoemaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born to a Healer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a violet deerstalker hat and violet clothes. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Adelard was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She usually wears her black robe and has her dagger always slung over her shoulder. She is physically well-built. She has done her best to style her scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Synthrin was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

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 prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Jasper (80 gp).

Description: A 3'5" eastern man, he wears a fancy tan suit. He has blonde hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak, and is pretty ugly. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

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. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He carries with him a set of sickles on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His silver hair is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. 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 Tanner arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Leucis was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Leucis decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.