Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her ears are large.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Georgina has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She keeps her brass crest in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Gesrethe lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears professional attire. Her white hair is still thick. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Cumpen grew up listening to her father's many stories. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He tends to wear a large black jacket. He wears his chestnut hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Shy, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has shaved her head bald. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Fisher. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a engraver again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She wears dull red sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed morningstar, just in case. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Stacee grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Stacee. 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 has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Berrian's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and tan handkerchief worn on her right side. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 40 pp. Chrysoprase (70 gp).