Description: She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants, and carries greataxes. She has wavy auburn hair. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born in a small island village. Jillian was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Jillian decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this southern woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nija is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This man wears a white armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His black fur is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'1" eastern woman, she wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her fur is gray, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Elegant was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Barbarian, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Barbarian in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1400 gp. Obsidian (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. She wears her silver hair down. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: Gomory hails from a village terrorized by goblins. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Many goblins want her driven away; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He got into the Masseuse business at a young age. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 14000 sp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He is baby faced.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 sp. Moss agate (15 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blue hair is heavily combed to the right. His fierce white eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 5000 sp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).