Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is blue, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She is a Lamia in disguise. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. After a long history of fighting, Sarai and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red crest. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a hunchback. Her red crest is matted, messy, and big. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Junk Dealer. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Katherine lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Architect they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Junk Dealer, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Architect; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 120 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he usually wears his black robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 70 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: Standing 3'2", this man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Orryn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a hunchback. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Valanthe was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 pp. Coral (50 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a fancy brown suit. He wears his auburn hair up. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with his god.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Weaver. He has worked as a Weaver like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Junk Dealer again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp.