Description: 5'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his black eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gifted student he started as a Merchant, but he got bored and became a Map Maker. He became a Map Maker soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Nella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and someone believes her a fraud

Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a white costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Detective but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Calcitro grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism, Pacifist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2700 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

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 however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 170 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green.

Personality: Braak wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Braak lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears an entirely tan suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears his red hair down. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is dark red and curly. His half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Damakos isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Damakos was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her head has been shaved. She wears a mask on her face.

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 will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Hunter. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull blue iron scale mail. His long gray fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

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 can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1400 sp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).