Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her yellow fur is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are copper.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 17th 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 is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears bulky red painted plate armor. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

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. He found a children's book about a Halfling Adept who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 30000 cp. Aquamarine (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her right hand. Her blue hair is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She struck the Spice Merchant job and began her own company from there.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to pay off her debts

Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1 Average lock.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a grey shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and green pants. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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 son.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This southern man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Berrian was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Stableman. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scimitar.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her 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 in the east her family was never financially stable. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has white hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Tiaathque has worked very hard to control her curse. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 pp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a red scarf. Her brown fur, when down, is lengthy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady yellow eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Tabaxi supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her first spouse was a Baker, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Detective and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 110 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp).