Description: She has a missing left arm. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

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

Possessions: Jade (110 gp).

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She very much looks the part of a Tanner. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her blonde hair up. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 310 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is short and black. He has gray eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Reynard abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. After a long history of fighting, Reynard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her green crest is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Eggren was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. Peridot (50 gp). 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her head has been shaved. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 7 Acid flasks.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and carries hand crossbows. His red crest is singed and shortened. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Farmer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She very much looks the part of a Shepherd. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small blue clips. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Maiathah has worked very hard to control her curse. She became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Silver pearl (50 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Verin was born the youngest of three triplets. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and doesn't want to be a map maker and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Family, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 230 gp.