Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her orange fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are yellow.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has worked as a Painter like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'1". She wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes, and her gloved hand is found clutching a hammer. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Manea lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Manea was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Manea decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Scribe and was forced into it by her family; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Azurite (13 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fletcher. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 250 gp. Tourmaline (160 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She likes to wear black tank tops with brown skirt. Her crest is cut close to her head. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Layabout who has hired her part-time. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Rezena was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 sp. Solid gold idol (300 gp).

Description: He stands about 3'2" and wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Forcas grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. After a long history of fighting, Forcas and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. After coming to the age of reason, Nagrette took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3100 sp.