Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. She has achieved small success as a Adventurer.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is physically well-built. His hair is blonde and curly. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the north to a Map Maker, Morkral learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. She has dyed her greying orange fur a little too much giving a sharp orange color. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. She's also a talented Seamstress, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears skinny pants and wears a green and tan robe with the hood down. She has no crest. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Arava has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He wears his white hair up. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by lycanthropy.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2000 sp. A roughly beaten golden orb (130 gp). A small bag of saffron. (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her rapier, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the right. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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 mountains. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She found a children's book about a Human Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 70 gp. Obsidian (11 gp).

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this eastern man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born in the east. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears just a brown suit, and is pretty ugly. He has dyed his greying red fur a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are yellow.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. After coming to the age of reason, Shivering took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.