Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She uses divination through singing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and usually wears his brown robe and has his dagger always slung over his shoulder. His fur is cut close to his head. His yellow eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her hair is short and auburn. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: 3'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a tan shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and tan pants. She has moderate length black hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An older man who is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, he is not a threatening figure. His bronze crest is unkempt and raggedy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.