Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She usually wears her blue robe and has her crossbow always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Melissa hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying west to reunite her family. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp).

Description: He wears dull black sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed trident, just in case, and carries tridents. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his youth he was a Fisher, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is physically well-built. His golden hair is cut short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is light but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Joan hails from a village terrorized by drow. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.