Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Rose enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Rose hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Rose was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 140 gp. Pink pearl (100 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: She wears a yellow vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her yellow boots flare out at the collars. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 84. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Vicky lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has never given up on her music dream.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, In love, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, white shirt, and blue tie. She wears her auburn hair up. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 Sailor. She tends to her Sailor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She has a very tight haircut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Ovina enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. 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. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'1". He wears a worn and beaten armor. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to be a bowyer again

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Standing 6'8", this woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her silver crest is greasy and uncared for. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Pogranix was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Mhurren was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shipwright. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: 3'11" and muscular, this southern man likes to wear grey tank tops with white pants. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Juliana was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She tends to her Body Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 140 gp.