Description: She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She is physically well-built. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Mardred enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mardred studied abroad. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Cook work with an outfit from a few towns over. Cook work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to be a stylist again

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 60. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born to a Miller, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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 is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver ewer (30 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears professional attire. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her brown fur down. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Trail lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a large brown jacket. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears her auburn hair down. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. After a long history of fighting, Avice and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 sp. Coral (140 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. She has wavy gold crest. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Hunter born in the past three hundred years. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple violet line shooting up and back down, and carries sais. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Malachite (16 gp).

Description: She wears an entirely brown suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and carries tridents. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: Mary 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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She is a Lycanthrope in disguise. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Stylist. His silver crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Pandjed is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His tied-back hair is white. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Purban was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).