Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

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. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Jet (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Hematite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull tan iron scale mail. Her hair is brown and very short. Her eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a simple brown robe with blue stripes complete with hood. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her blonde hair down. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Nurkara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has worked as a Performer like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Jebeddo is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jebeddo studied abroad. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Animal Trainer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Animal Trainer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jebeddo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Jade (60 gp). Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: She typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her fur is gray and curly. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: River is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: River was born with her father's beautiful face. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 2000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, black cloak. She has moderate length green crest. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

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: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1900 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp).