Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is a great chef.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Jade (90 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Hugh was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Hugh's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Hugh and his spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: An older woman who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her golden hair up. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Margery lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Margery 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 Margery. She has achieved small success as a Assassin.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; 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

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks, and a wedding ring on his left hand. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Gunter hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: Just what you see.