Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a hunchback. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a Weaver, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Armorer for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Moonstone (50 gp). 1 Crowbar.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Smoking reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. His hair is short and silver. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born into a rich family. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 20 gp. Coral (140 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing a long, white cloak. Her blonde hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Spice Merchant business.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is baby faced.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 70 pp.