Description: This man is tall and muscular. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: An old rival family wants him found; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs, and is pretty ugly. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She uses divination through singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Xanaphia was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 13000 cp. Black pearl (300 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Rose (50 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her head has been shaved. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Hunter. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He 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. His black fur is lengthy. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Immeral hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is a great chef.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a tight pastel one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His fur is gray and very short. His yellow eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sage business.

History: Flask was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Sage kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A 6'5" western man, he wears an entirely white suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is silver and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears bulky tan painted plate armor, and she perpetually has her longsword ready. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Numba is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp).