Description: The light-skinned woman stands 6'1" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Herleva liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He likes to wear brown tank tops with blue pants. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Heward was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new cook responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a black collared shirt and pastel pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He worked as a nervous Fortune-teller and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Fortune-teller like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears long strands of aquamarine and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is content

Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Amethyst (80 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp).