Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'3" and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Guard. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A true patriot, Shanairla would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She worked as a nervous Guard and found it very stressful. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Shanairla never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Military, In love, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His brown fur is lengthy. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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 was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 sp. White pearl (110 gp).

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She carries a battered spear and tarnished hammer as well. She has styled her gold crest well, parting it to the left. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat and is in decent physical shape. She has gray fur. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Amethyst (60 gp).