Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

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 would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a sickle and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mindartis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, PTSD. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 8000 gp. Canary diamond (5000 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and carries monstrous two handed axes. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a brown shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and white pants, and is pretty ugly. His gray fur has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Barkeep born in the past three hundred years. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gifted student he started as a Blacksmith, but he got bored and became a Barkeep. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 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. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His scarlet crest, when down, is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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 Priest business at a young age. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He became a Priest soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new priest responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'2". He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and his gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Zircon (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Obsidian (8 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Lewis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has worked as a Masseuse like his father before him.

Motivation: He is content; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2300 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her gold crest is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She uses divination through singing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Laborer; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 900 pp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Black opal (600 gp).