Description: She stands about 3'11" and wears a brown vest and prefers black and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her brown hair down. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Barbena will drive conversation. She uses divination through singing.

History: Barbena hails from a village terrorized by illithids. After coming to the age of reason, Barbena took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Barbena 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 revenge

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 sp. Coral (150 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She takes great joy in being the best Masseuse in town.

History: She got into the Masseuse business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Masseuse and found it very stressful. She became a Masseuse soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his red crest in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She wears a black top hat and black clothes. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and halberds. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Driindar was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Driindar decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She has the majority of her body covered in plate, marred by teas. She sports golden long hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Weaver profession.

History: She was born in the south. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 120 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Sporting a chestnut mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her ears are large.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born into a rich family. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She carries a battered axe and tarnished kukri as well. Her black hair is wavy and long. She has green eyes and a grey hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Gurdis is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her childhood dream was to be a Fletcher, but she was a colossal failure. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gurdis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His tied-back hair is red. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.