Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He tends to wear a large green jacket. He has a hunchback. His hair is chestnut and curly. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He takes great joy in being the best Locksmith in town.

History: The child of a Shoemaker, who enjoyed hunting, Balam was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Jade (120 gp).

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western woman wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (500 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a green feathered hat and green clothes. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This red eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Performer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Furrele was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Performer. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 sp. Jet (80 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her copper crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Savaran hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Savaran alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears an entirely brown suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He carries with him a set of whips on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His brown fur is lengthy. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Shoemaker but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pelt fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 120 gp.