Description: She wears bulky tan painted plate armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. She has a very tight haircut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Birel 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 Birel. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 sp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, and she perpetually has her morningstar ready. Her crest is red and curly. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Pogranix and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished nunchaku as well. He has yellow fur. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull white iron scale mail. Her long dark red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Fearful, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a very tight haircut. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 cp. Amethyst (40 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a blue coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She got into the Carpenter business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Armorer, but she got bored and became a Carpenter. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and she perpetually has her falchion ready. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise white.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her childhood dream was to be a Shepherd, but she was a colossal failure. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ronwe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1400 sp.