Description: This tall, slender man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His brown hair is braided into rings. His black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Qemuel alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Qemuel fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism, Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 180 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears a black collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She keeps her long purple hair kept up in a rat tail. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. Being a Scribe kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tabaxi people; and tabaxi compassion

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 700 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. She carries with her a set of quarterstaffs on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. Her silver crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. Red garnet (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Malachite (14 gp).