Description: She wears a blue collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly axes and rapiers. Her tied-back hair is brown. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. Being a Miner 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: Seeks redemption; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: This man dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length rusty crest. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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 to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. With bright red hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He wears a brown coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her blonde hair down. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mialee never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. She keeps her blue hair in a pixie cut. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Navigator hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Standing 4'11", this man wears a violet shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He uses divination through singing.

History: Berrian was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears professional attire. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.