Description: This woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His tied-back hair is blonde. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in the west to a Mortician, Aldous learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mortician. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 gp. Eye agate (15 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Oriel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

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. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.