Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls 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: Maiathah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She's also a talented Adventurer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His fur is short and brown. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Cloak was born with his father's beautiful face. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Assassin; and he's attracted to the pc

Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He uses divination through singing.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Onyx (70 gp). 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Neega hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Neega alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Revenge; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. He has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Koeth lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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. Koeth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 6000 cp. Amber (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a Brewer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Valafar was born with his mother's beautiful face. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Brewer for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Brewer responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. With wild silver hair. She has violet eyes and a red hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Vani was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. He has white crest. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Azzakh 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 Azzakh. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Emotional. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly lances and pickaxes. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 sp.