Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. She is baby faced.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. 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. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born in a small plains village. Ida liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Bather

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her white hair is still thick. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Gifted from a young age, Nemeia studied abroad. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she's in love

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 sp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is physically well-built. Her hair is short and blonde. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Creega was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Priest. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She carries with her a set of glaives on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Mary speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Miller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries with her a set of bastard swords on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She wears her black hair up. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She is a Slaad in disguise. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: An older woman who wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, she is not a threatening figure. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Chrysoprase (60 gp). 1 Superior lock.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His red hair is braided into rings. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Oppleby and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

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

Possessions: 800 sp. Jade (70 gp). Jade (70 gp).