Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Performer. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Althaea alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Performer for hire.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

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

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He sports a flattop hair cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Himo grew up listening to his father's many stories. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a simple tan robe with red stripes complete with hood. He carries with him a set of tridents, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are brown and beady.

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 is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Jebeddo was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with his Animal Trainer father left him crippled. 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. Jebeddo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has no hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Seere is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has worked as a Merchant like her mother before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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 on a small isolated farm. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her brown hair is still thick. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Rock crystal (80 gp).

Description: She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Skirt lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Tailor. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Quillathe 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. Quillathe decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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. Being a Blacksmith kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 80 gp. Obsidian (10 gp).