Description: An older woman who wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, she is not a threatening figure. She has moderate length brown hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born in the north to a Baker, Lerissa learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Baker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has achieved small success as a Baker.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is typically in his Guard uniform, and is pretty ugly. He wears his red hair up. His face is scarred and worn.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Spy again; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Riardon alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears long strands of amethyst and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His black hair is still thick. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 40 gp. White pearl (150 gp).

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants, and he perpetually has his ceremonial dagger ready. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Navigator. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When Skak reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He's also a talented Engraver, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears white trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is red and curly. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

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 is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in a small island village. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20 pp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a Masseuse first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: To be a Miner again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and his gloved hand is found clutching a lance. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a Priest, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Nature, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears a green vest and prefers white and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His hair is brown and very short. His ears are large.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Fortune-teller they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Adventurer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 sp.