Description: She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Avelina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Andry isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She became a Actor soon after.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Actor responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 sp. Sard (20 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She saw the violence of war and the aftermath so she converted to religion and dedicated herself to non-violence.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Secretive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Merchant. His fur is cinnamon and curly. His copper eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His first spouse was a Fletcher, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is in excellent shape and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a black shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. With wild auburn hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Sailor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Rosamund is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Rosamund hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Map Maker. Her black hair is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is mildly Tiefling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is light but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. He has no hair. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. He has achieved small success as a Gardener.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 220 gp.