Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and red. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born in the south to a Tanner, Cressel learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Cressel was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Cressel decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Has a crush, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Roywyn lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is dark but he possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in a small forest village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 210 pp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Peridot (40 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. 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: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Shanairla reached her early adolescence her Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp.