Description: This late middle aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is short and blonde. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Slave Trader. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. When Paela reached her early adolescence her Halfling mother 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and is pretty ugly. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Courier profession.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Emerald (500 gp). Black opal (500 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His lavender fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in a small desert village. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Performer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 3'5" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Barrister. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. At a young age his father died while driving off some illithids. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in sword use. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.