Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shifting 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 Shifting. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Terse, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and pickaxes. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

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. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. 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; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Body Guard soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries with her a set of spears on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her blue crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a Herbalist, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Gesrethe was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and doesn't want to be a cook and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His blue crest is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Trynnicus grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He found a children's book about a Dragonborn Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Everard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Manfred was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. A freak accident while working with his Bather father left him crippled. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 5000 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp).