Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her small blue hat.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Slave Trader. 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 Slave Trader business at a young age. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Malquis never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Immigrant, In love, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She usually wears her brown robe and has her morningstar always slung over her shoulder. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Optimist, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears red trousers with grey and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gildmak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Gildmak was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and many illithids want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her black crest is smooth and relatively long. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Surina has worked very hard to control her curse. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 10 pp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has gray eyes.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Performer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Detective, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His crest is cut close to his head. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents were killed by goblins in a raid when he was still a young child. The goblins captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He wears pastel trousers with red and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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 he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Debt. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Banded mail.