Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her top red hat.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. 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: Verna was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Shoemaker. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp).

Description: She wears dull blue sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed pickaxe, just in case. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Bimpnottin hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At some point she was captured by gnolls and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Sardonyx (50 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Rose (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 3'6", this woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Salanop is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. 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: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, 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 orange fur is thinning but still full. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born in the west to a Bellfounder, Drifting learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing his hectic life and new bellfounder responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.