Description: 6'5" and muscular, this southern man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has orange fur. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Smoking is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Smoking grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Smoking. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Ruler for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 12000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a large black jacket. She carries with her a set of falchions on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She keeps her rusty crest in a pixie cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her fur is cinnamon and very short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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 Tabaxi in existence. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Smoking was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She found a children's book about a Tabaxi Wizard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Smoking never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a simple red robe with violet stripes complete with hood. She wears her white hair up. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Laborer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Animal Trainer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp.