Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the north to a Actor, Qualen learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Actor work with an outfit from a few towns over. Actor work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Actor and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Professionalism, Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a red shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and tan pants. Her tied-back hair is red. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Butcher. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born into a rich family. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered illithids who tried to eat her hand. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult; and she wants revenge against illithids

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a great chef.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears just a yellow suit. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her cinnamon fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Knight hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull tan iron scale mail. Her brown hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She got into the Barrister business at a young age. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barrister for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Smoky quartz (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'8" when asserting herself. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To be a Shipwright again; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'5". He wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad white hat.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Grom was raised in a hard working conservative environment. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: Standing 3'1", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has green eyes and a white hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.