Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sickle with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Amber (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Amber (150 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student she started as a Sellsword, but she got bored and became a Tanner. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. She has wavy auburn hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Ella alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Just what you see.