Description: She wears a yellow tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her silver hair is matted, messy, and big. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Detective work with an outfit from a few towns over. Detective work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a detective and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 40 gp. Malachite (15 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gale 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. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Roofer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears white trousers with green and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

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 moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Anastrianna was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'1" and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her black hair is knotted and matted. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Secretive, Insane. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1100 sp. 2 Holy water.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is wavy and long. 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 reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Bowyer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her tied-back hair is red. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Shanairla never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature, In love. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

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. Arnold was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Arnold decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is renowned for her bright pastel dresses and hats. Her fur, while still mostly orange, has prominent grey streaks. Her copper eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Elegant was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has worked as a Courier like her father before her.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again.

Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1700 sp. Carnelian (80 gp).