Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears tattered old clothes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Eloise alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. Black star sapphire (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and blue handkerchief worn on his left side. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is a great chef.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Map Maker. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Dean embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 sp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.