Description: This woman wears a fancy yellow dress, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Priest for the past few years.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He is portly but not overly obese. His green crest is greasy and uncared for. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Gargax was born the youngest of three triplets. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He got money to start a business from the gang present in town. He is greatly indebted to them.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Debt. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Moss agate (11 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears an entirely white suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has silver hair. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Emen alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Amber (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). White pearl (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His fur, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a Guard, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 35000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: Bilga 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. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Bilga is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Bilga was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Justice. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 230 gp. Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears baggy green pantaloons and a white scarf. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Tethren speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the west to a Cook, Tethren learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Tethren took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull green iron scale mail. She has no fur. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Fearful, Disease. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Red garnet (50 gp).