Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mardred grew up listening to her father's many stories. 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. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and 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, Racist, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Fibblestib was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red fur is knotted and matted. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

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 dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She has styled her blue hair well, parting it to the left. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is thinning but still full. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Raymond was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Raymond took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up longbow and armor he uses now. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Butcher

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

Possessions: 160 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears his brass crest up. His red eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson green hat.

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 a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She carries with her a set of halberds on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her tied-back hair is brown. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Anne hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She carries with her a set of sais on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

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 Balifra was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Balifra's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Balifra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Many goblins want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 110 gp. Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She usually wears her black robe and has her longbow always slung over her shoulder. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her crest is green and very short. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She takes great joy in being the best Sculptor in town.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Uadjit was born on a far eastern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Sculptor. She struck the Sculptor job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sculptor responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 gp.