Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants. He has done his best to style his gray fur to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Jade (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shoemaker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shoemaker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He became a Shoemaker soon after.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her black crest in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Findex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Naivara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Doctor again; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 9000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has no hair. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 91. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. Eloise is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Eloise lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Eloise was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Eloise's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. The war was a terrible time for her, and Vepar does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has worked as a Spice Merchant like her father before her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Moonstone (50 gp). Amber (120 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).