Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has chestnut hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Merihim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He struck the Servant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sekhmet studied abroad. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sekhmet fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: Standing 6'5", this man wears a simple grey robe with tan stripes complete with hood. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Everard was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Everard 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 Everard. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Tourmaline (140 gp). 1 Backpack.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a long, violet cloak. His white hair is still thick. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Rolf was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Stylist, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Ida alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Ida was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a green shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her crest is bronze and curly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Thava grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. Her brown fur is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She became a Gardener soon after.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his halberd with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is physically well-built. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has done her best to style her blue crest to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 50 gp. Amber (120 gp).