Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her red crest is heavily combed to the left. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Iolite (40 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. With bright blonde hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Ilanis was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp).

Description: This woman wears professional attire. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Through the years after Ishte was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Ishte's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: A deep hatred of illithids; and revenge

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 160 gp. Peridot (30 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Creega is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: An older man who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is silver and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Thomas was born with his father's beautiful face. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 gp.