Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She has golden hair. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Melissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She struck the Bricklayer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 50 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She usually wears her grey robe and has her hand crossbow always slung over her shoulder. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Balifra was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear grey tank tops with white pants. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He got into the Bellfounder business at a young age. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He got money to start a business from the gang present in town. He is greatly indebted to them.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this southern woman wears a tattered pair of loose yellow pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her silver hair is well kept. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Rinn was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a blue vest and prefers yellow and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He is physically well-built. His scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Crowbar. 1 Silk rope.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'11" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His golden hair is knotted and matted. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Gifted from a young age, Baern studied abroad. 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 is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a green collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She is physically well-built. Her rusty crest is long and unkept. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She tends to her Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 80 gp.