Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His orange fur is singed and shortened. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He uses divination through singing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Aura alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 160 gp. Pink pearl (70 gp).

Description: She usually wears her grey robe and has her nunchaku always slung over her shoulder. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Detective like her mother before her.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears his black hair down. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Efferil was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Cartwright, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

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

Possessions: 130 gp. Coral (50 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, brown shirt, and yellow tie. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

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 Human in existence. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He got into the Detective business at a young age. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He's also a talented Ruler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Bonds: Slave, Job, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This northern man wears a simple tan robe with grey stripes complete with hood. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1600 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'3". He wears baggy grey pantaloons and a white scarf, and his gloved hand is found clutching a longbow. His hair is short and auburn. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Peter hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. A true patriot, Peter would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Peter has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Peter fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Dara was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Dara's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Addict, Disease, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 10 pp. Coral (100 gp).