Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses like a well dressed Banker does. She keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1400 sp. Chalcedony (50 gp). Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Doctor. 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: To unite with his sister; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is typically in his Mayor uniform. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. He has a hunchback. His white hair is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Gennal abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She bought a longbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 Gnome in existence. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her red crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. After a long history of fighting, Burana and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and grey pants. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is baby faced.

Personality: Rolf is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 150 gp.