Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, brown shirt, and violet tie. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north to a Herbalist, Quarion learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 47000 sp. Deep green spinel (110 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her brown hair is well kept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She is a Lamia in disguise. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Tordrid has worked very hard to control her curse. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a halberd on his belt. He has wavy black hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Adrik lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Navigator, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has wavy white hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire.