Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown tunic with pastel highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. His white hair is cut short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

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

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Rose (20 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Callie's homeland. Callie decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 25000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. He has moderate length silver crest. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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 born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 120 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: A 3'3" western woman, she wears a blue vest and prefers red and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is white and very short. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Jeweler. Being a Jeweler kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a large green jacket. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Iados isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When Iados reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. After months of barely getting by, Iados managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 gp. Banded agate (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Canary diamond (7000 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her grey robe. Her black crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: The child of a Knight, who enjoyed hunting, Hethress was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp).