Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a green coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She has done her best to style her bronze crest to look like a famous performer. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She comes from a rich western family. A freak accident while working with her Merchant father left her crippled. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp. Jasper (70 gp).

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'1" when asserting herself. Her hair is short and silver. 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. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born to a Masseuse, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: She wears a yellow feathered hat and yellow clothes. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the left. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her first spouse was a Weaver, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Passionate, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He very much looks the part of a Ruler. His brown hair is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Horhog was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Horhog's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a tan tunic with black highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is a Interpreter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. She became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears baggy green pantaloons and a red scarf. His long red crest 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 business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A freak accident while working with his Dilettante father left him crippled. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman is typically in her Mason uniform. Her head has been shaved. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Panana was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She tends to her Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To be a Mercenary again; and balancing her hectic life and new mason responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Jabbie has worked very hard to control his curse. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in the east to a Bather, Eiravel learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He 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. He became a Bather soon after.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 50 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.