Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears professional attire. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Bather kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: 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.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her first spouse was a Barkeep, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he 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 pretty ugly. His silver hair is lengthy. His fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He very much looks the part of a Dyer. His gray fur is singed and shortened. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates Tabaxis with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gifted student he started as a Mayor, but he got bored and became a Dyer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a strong sense of loyalty to tabaxi people

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40000 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears grey trousers with black and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He got into the Butcher business at a young age. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 270 gp. Amethyst (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Jasper (30 gp).