Description: This western man wears a simple grey robe with green stripes complete with hood. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is black. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Shane hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. Shane enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 150 gp. White pearl (100 gp).

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Nuraval enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a Spy, his father struggled to pay the bills. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. She has slicked back white hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Dyer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Barbena never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. His head has been shaved. He has green eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Fulbar embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Fulbar was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Barkeep. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 260 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Murgen was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Murgen's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Mayor but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of a Soapmaker, who enjoyed hunting, Gurdis was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'0". She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a white coat with tan slacks. She has done her best to style her blue hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 10 pp. Jet (160 gp).

Description: She has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her green robe, and she perpetually has her bow ready. With wild brown hair. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Valida is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. Amber (90 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears a brown coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her lavender fur down. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered drow who tried to eat her hand. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many drow want her driven away

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Smokesticks.