Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His fur is orange and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a Body Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'5" and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His auburn hair is still thick. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He got into the Cartwright business at a young age. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 5000 gp. Obsidian (5 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy cinnamon fur. He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and violet pants. He has a hunchback. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Carter. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'8" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Chaedi was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His silver hair is braided into rings. His green eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 270 pp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, green shirt, and blue tie. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.