Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a green scarf. Her fur is black and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Art took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a black small hat and black clothes, marred by beers. He wears his black hair up. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this eastern man prefers to wear flannel. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Nazdûg was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. 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 Bricklayer. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Actor. He carries with him a set of sickles on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His beige fur is thinning but still full. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: 2'9" and muscular, this western woman wears professional attire. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Dee's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Dee was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 gp. White pearl (70 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Backpack.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and money/treasure

Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Military, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her skin is flawless and her white eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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, Bune is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. After coming to the age of reason, Bune took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Blue quartz (16 gp). White opal (400 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. Menny enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Menny grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Menny alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 900 sp.