Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His hair is cut close to his head. His silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 22000 sp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. A true patriot, Hadwisa would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Braak was born the youngest of three triplets. Braak was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Animal Trainer. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her first spouse was a Ruler, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise her children well

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a fancy yellow suit. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Raymond fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished man wears a brown shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His brown fur is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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: Three 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. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her black hair is braided into rings. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. Her beige fur is thinning but still full. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.