Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a hunchback. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Elysande was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Elysande took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up trident and armor she uses now. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 800 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'2" when asserting himself. He has a very tight haircut. He has gray eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Frederick was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He usually wears his black robe and has his glaive always slung over his shoulder. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He found a children's book about a Human Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To protect his home; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Secretive, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.