Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Sporting a silver mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Crown-heir born in the past three hundred years. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Nora was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Selfish, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Dimble was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Coral (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). 1 Disguise kit. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, blue shirt, and green tie. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has no hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: The child of a Bellfounder, who enjoyed hunting, Odo was taken on many hunting expeditions. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Tanner

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

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Sard (30 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Jacoba was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her bronze crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hillanot 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 Hillanot. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: An older man who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 140 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is portly but not overly obese. Her long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is baby faced.

Personality: Pyxrin wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. 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 Mason. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mason.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 27000 cp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and she perpetually has her sickle ready. Her silver crest is matted, messy, and big. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Perra grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 110 gp.