Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier, and is pretty ugly. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 sp. White pearl (80 gp).

Description: She likes to wear violet tank tops with pastel skirt. Her hair is brown and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 120 gp. Azurite (5 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Cloud was born with her father's beautiful face. 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. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears skinny pants and wears a white and green robe with the hood down. Her head has been shaved. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this western woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is a great chef.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 90 pp. Golden pearl (110 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has moderate length orange fur. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Emerald hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'9" and wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shane embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Brewer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Shane took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up bow and armor he uses now. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Brewer for the past few years.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His crest is black and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a simple black robe with white stripes complete with hood. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her golden hair is well kept. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born in the south to a Stylist, Baggi learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Job, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2200 sp.