Description: She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has no fur. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Smoking was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Racist. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 130 gp. Star rose quartz (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Jade (100 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: She stands about 4'7" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Tawar is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Sardonyx (50 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a great chef.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Oda was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Obsidian (15 gp).

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He takes great joy in being the best Bookbinder in town.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and green handkerchief worn on her right side. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. After coming to the age of reason, Roywyn took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.