Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a dagger on her belt. Her auburn hair is well kept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1700 sp. Amber (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. After a long history of fighting, Tim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Fearful. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. Her red fur is knotted and matted. Her yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Quick speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 150 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and he perpetually has his spear ready. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Guy is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Guy was born the youngest of three triplets. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a pastel broad hat and pastel clothes. His orange fur is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has wavy blonde hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born in the north. Gruk abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He became a Farmer soon after.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is red and very short. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He wears a green tunic with yellow highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has wavy brown hair. He has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. 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: To pay off his debts; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Rich, Military, Debt, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Everburning torch.