Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Veloptima was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Veloptima's homeland. Veloptima decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She carries a battered trident and tarnished longsword as well. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Aasathra abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Aasathra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

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

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a brown tunic with yellow highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her cinnamon fur is braided into rings. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. When Left-Handed reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is renowned for his bright yellow suits and hats. His silver hair is still thick. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his feathered yellow hat.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Don was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Merchant.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scythe, just in case. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 80 gp. Amber (150 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a spear on her belt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her skin is flawless and her gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Surina fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Carpenter they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Miller, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. 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. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born in the east. Through the years after Rathkran was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Rathkran's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Apothecary for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 sp. Onyx (30 gp).