Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears baggy red pantaloons and a white scarf. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and blonde. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Pikar reached his early adolescence his Halfling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a worn and beaten armor, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Joan was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Spice Merchant. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears dull yellow sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed whip, just in case. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She was born in the south. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. She has gray eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Valida never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (70 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Glassblower like his mother before him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 130 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp).

Description: A 2'8" western woman, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has brown hair. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Seraphina was born with her father's beautiful face. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Mason work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mason work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has taken up work as a Mason and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Flaws: Lazy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: This western woman wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her fur is orange, silky, and of moderate length. Her yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has achieved small success as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.