Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Jocelyn grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Jocelyn. Being a Glassblower 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: To reunite with his absent father; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born in the east. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has achieved small success as a Detective.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is brown and curly. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. Heward was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Heward decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, marred by teas. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Audhild enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the west to a Bounty Hunter, Audhild learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Audhild abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 pp.

Description: She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a green scarf, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'10" when asserting herself. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a blue costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). 4 Thunderstones. 2 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This northern man prefers to wear flannel. His clothes are grease stained in places. His purple hair is unkempt and raggedy. His black eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Opinionated, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.