Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is short and purple. His eyes are black and beady.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. Balam was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Balam decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and 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

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her hair is white and very short. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a great chef.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Akta was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Malachite (16 gp). Amber (60 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Pink diamond (5000 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Amber (60 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Hematite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears an entirely black suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes and is in decent physical shape. She has done her best to style her rusty crest to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is an amazing painter.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. With wild white hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Bellfounder like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears bulky yellow painted plate armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'7" when asserting herself. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Beatrice is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Soapmaker soon after.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to share knowledge with the world

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Coral (130 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Azurite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp.