Description: This man wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has worked as a Cook like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. The war was a terrible time for him, and Pallabar does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Pallabar was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 500 gp. Citrine (70 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: This woman is very fat, and tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her bronze crest is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Peridot (40 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. A true patriot, Alain would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Alain alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Mundane, Addict. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Buckler.

Description: An older woman who wears tattered old clothes, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She hates Dwarves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 260 gp.