Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has dyed his greying black fur a little too much giving a sharp black color. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Cartwright business.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Smoking alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Courier they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Cartwright, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and 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

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 130 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). 1 Holy water. 2 Antitoxin. 5 Acid flasks.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Her first spouse was a Detective, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 cp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length brown hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 sp.