Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a Herbalist first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Matilda was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Matilda decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; 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: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is an epitome of beauty. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Drogo was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Drogo decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. After a long history of fighting, Drogo and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has wavy auburn hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Herleva was born with her father's beautiful face. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. She struck the Herbalist job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a Tailor, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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 Bather. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Zircon (40 gp).