Description: He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a green scarf. He carries a battered longsword and tarnished sickle as well. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Assassin first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Onyx (50 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is brown and very short. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. 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: Claira was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is short and golden. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Lewis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Performer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears a green armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a colorful flower in her rusty crest. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears an entirely green suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears white trousers with violet and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Hobart was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Sage. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. His dark red hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane, PTSD. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Eye agate (11 gp).