Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and is renowned for her bright grey dresses and hats. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Helen grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: She wears a fancy tan dress. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed hand crossbow, just in case. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 220 gp. Jet (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her black eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Vepar has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears baggy green pantaloons and a white scarf. Her scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her skin is flawless and her red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a great chef.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears professional attire. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Thiala was born with her father's beautiful face. A gifted student she started as a Servant, but she got bored and became a Body Guard. She has achieved small success as a Body Guard.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a pastel wide-brimmed hat and pastel clothes. Her black fur, when down, is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Junk Dealer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. The war was a terrible time for her, and Flame does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the north to a Junk Dealer, Flame learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Flame took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Flame never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears pastel trousers with violet and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries a battered kukri and tarnished mace as well. He keeps his gray fur in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears long strands of ruby and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Family, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.