Description: This malnourished woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 60000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his white crest down. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He takes great joy in being the best Doctor in town.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His cinnamon fur is smooth and relatively long. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 cp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has moderate length auburn hair. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Banker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When Pallabar reached his early adolescence his Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Vonana enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Vonana was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Banded agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Rose (60 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Anselm hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 sp. Alexandrite (1600 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears an entirely blue suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She uses divination through singing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tabaxi companion (her 'brother'). She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 6000 cp.