Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a beggar and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a black tunic with tan highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: Raer is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. A true patriot, Raer would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Raer was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman wears dark leathers with embroidery, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has wavy copper crest. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Antrara alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 150 gp. Blue quartz (7 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She carries with her a set of quarterstaffs on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Vani is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting gnolls, the young Vani began to lead the lost caravan. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 70 gp. Peridot (30 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is typically in her Dilettante uniform. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson blue hat.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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, Lorilla is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

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; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears a fancy black suit. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has shaved his head bald. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Hûra was born with his father's beautiful face. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Server hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. She has moderate length silver hair. Her black eyes peer out from beneath her small black hat.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Akta was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His ears are large.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Quarion was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

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

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 gp.