Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. His blue hair is braided into rings. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Spice Merchant. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Melech was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Coral (90 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has dyed her greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Thava is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears her auburn hair up. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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 born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His fur is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Silent lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Detective they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Assassin, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1900 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Carnelian (70 gp).

Description: This man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his left hand. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. He keeps his copper crest in a pixie cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 13000 sp. Jasper (60 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears brown trousers with blue and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a hunchback. She has slicked back red hair. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the north to a Bookbinder, Juliana learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Hematite (15 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man dresses well, wearing pastel shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. His fur is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Two Llamas was born with his mother's beautiful face. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. 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.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.