Description: 5'11" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is a great chef.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Ida was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'3", this woman wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Black star sapphire (800 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her right hand. She wears her auburn hair up. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ermina grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. During her travels, Ermina and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Ermina discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Ermina fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (300 gp).