Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her ears are large.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Ella hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears just a green suit. His silver hair is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in the east. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Peter was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is chestnut and curly. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Heward was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 20000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Oriel grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Oriel. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is content; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp.