Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She sports silver long hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born in a small forest village. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Ilga took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sword and armor she uses now. She bought a sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is cut short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mercenary hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. After a long history of fighting, Aelar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: Vapula 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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised by priests from 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear pastel tank tops with blue pants. He has wavy black fur. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is content

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. Her hair is brown and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

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. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'2". She wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and her gloved hand is found clutching a club. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

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. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: She is typically in her Interpreter uniform. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her black hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Adelaide lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Interpreter. She struck the Interpreter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Interpreter and was forced into it by her family; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Family, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Barkeep. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are a pleasant silver.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She married young, but lost her spouse to drow. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Depressed, Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His black crest is matted, messy, and big. His red eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mercenary arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp. Citrine (60 gp).