Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Alice is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of a Bellfounder, who enjoyed hunting, Alice was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears just a brown suit. His red fur is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Shivering was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Shivering was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older woman who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 13th 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Siffress fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She refers to her adoptive father 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: She was born in a small island village. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Malachite (7 gp).

Description: He wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'6" when asserting himself. His brown fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Brewer, Sun learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His first spouse was a Glassblower, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. His hair is silver and very short. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Halimath lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: An older man who wears a white vest and prefers green and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, he is not a threatening figure. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Banker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Weaver, but he got bored and became a Banker. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.