Description: This tall, slender woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Orla hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Orla was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Orla decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His hair is blue and very short. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Akmen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When Akmen reached his early adolescence his Tiefling 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 bought a rapier and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has a crush on the local miller

Flaws: Selfish, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She wears just a brown suit. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Jeweler who has hired her part-time. A true patriot, Margery would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Jeweler soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1700 sp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She is an epitome of beauty. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His crest, while still mostly green, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise gold.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Hunter. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To be a Hunter again; and balancing his hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He tends to his Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 30 gp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Reddlepop's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Reddlepop is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Reddlepop was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dilettante. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in the south. His mother 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: To prove his worth to the world; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Everburning torch.