Description: This woman wears long strands of amber and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her copper crest is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'2". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is content; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: Born to a Dyer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Tawna isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in the east to a Cartwright, Tawna learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Cartwright for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a longbow, but if one is not available she will default to her sickle. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Irann lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Irann was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Irann's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His silver hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Peren is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. After a long history of fighting, Peren and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 160 gp. Moonstone (80 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears professional attire. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a white coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. His hair is black and curly. He has a dull look in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born into a rich family. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 90 gp.