Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

History: Emerald was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and many gnolls want her driven away

Flaws: Racist, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: Standing 4'9", this woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her yellow fur is unkempt and raggedy. She is baby faced.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. The war was a terrible time for her, and Harvest does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. When Harvest reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Harvest fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Ida was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ruler they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Navigator, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She keeps her long bronze crest kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Slave Trader but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

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. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 900 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Sard (80 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Quarion liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Blue diamond (4000 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and doesn't want to be a guard and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Through the years after Thea was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Thea's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 60 pp.