Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born in the east to a Courier, Matilda learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Matilda grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Matilda. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; 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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears just a red suit. Her head has been shaved. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with music. She constantly tries to fill her life with music. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Her childhood dream was to be a Cook, but she was a colossal failure. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. He has a very tight haircut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Selfish. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a red tunic with tan highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around his shoes and is in decent physical shape. His hair is brown and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Addict. Bonds: Family, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.