Description: This woman wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a Knight, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. After a long history of fighting, Geva and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's in love; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Hematite (12 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Anthony's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. The war was a terrible time for him, and Anthony does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Detective. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Sellsword they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Detective, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and violet robe with the hood down. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a great chef.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Jasper (20 gp).