Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries a battered spear and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. His scarlet crest is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Spice Merchant. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 20 pp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her brown hair is cut short. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Ellyjoybell was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Ellyjoybell's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

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

Possessions: 700 sp. Jade (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is cut close to his head. His ears are large.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ghûra is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Barber, his father struggled to pay the bills. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and doesn't want to be a tanner and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Eleanor was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 2 Thunderstones. 2 Holy water. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Born in the south to a Crown-heir, Helja learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Crown-heir work with an outfit from a few towns over. Crown-heir work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is grey, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Claira was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She's also a talented Ploughman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3 Antitoxin.

Description: This dark-skinned female is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her brown hair up. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Jarana speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Jarana 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He keeps his lavender fur in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling copper eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 50. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.