Description: This slender woman stands about 5'0". She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Mara lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Argran was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Argran was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A 2'11" northern woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Stacee was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Stacee was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Layabout. She has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: To be a Ruler again; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

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

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 140 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears baggy black pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Gormogord was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Seamstress. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Seamstress for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a black coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She has dyed her greying blue hair a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her small black hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Pyra was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 Marshal. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Pyra was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Half-Plate.