Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Red garnet (60 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears just a black suit. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The war was a terrible time for her, and Volen does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a worn and beaten armor. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Vanchu was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Bard, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Bard in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Vanchu abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 9000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: A 6'6" eastern man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His crest is short and red. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Kriv lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student he started as a Layabout, but he got bored and became a Navigator. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kriv fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Family, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.