Description: This light-skinned female wears a fancy brown dress. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Nurkara was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nurkara never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red garnet (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Qualen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Actor, but he got bored and became a Beggar. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, marred by sweets. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Paggen is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Rose (40 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Coral (80 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Coral (80 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has wavy rusty crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Healer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is his passion; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 180 pp. Deep green spinel (50 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She wears a fancy tan dress. She carries with her a set of shortspears, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. 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 east. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Frouse abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Gardener. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Gardener. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and doesn't want to be a gardener and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Religious, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 900 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull black iron scale mail. With wild chestnut hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A true patriot, Nora would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Banker. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.