Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in an above average manner. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 160 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered brigands who tried to eat his hand. He has worked as a Miller like his father before him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and to be a jeweler again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He has a hunchback. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are gray.

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. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has no hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the south to a Jeweler, Dench learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Jeweler for hire.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 2'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Aura was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 500 sp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. 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 quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 120 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned female wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has no hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Avelina fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, red cloak. She has golden hair. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born into a rich family. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Wella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Obsidian (11 gp).