Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a white coat with green slacks. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and is pretty ugly. She wears her white hair down. She has black eyes.

Personality: She is a Interpreter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has a hunchback. She wears her auburn hair up. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Diesa is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Diesa was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Fisher. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her beige fur, when down, is lengthy. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Smoking was born the youngest of three triplets. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: 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; and money/treasure

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Red spinel (140 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 3'2" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is cut close to his head. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Zaffrab was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 gp.