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 white hair is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Valida is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Valida was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Valida fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 280 pp. Azurite (5 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears an entirely white suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fisher. He struck the Fisher job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 140 pp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a sword on her belt. Her orange fur is singed and shortened. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Tabaxi in existence. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. In her 14th 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Spring fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. White pearl (150 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Blue-white diamond (3000 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Detective who has hired him part-time. A true patriot, Kairon would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Butcher. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He's in love; and wants his loneliness to end

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Has a crush, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered yellow hat.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Racist, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Emotional, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1500 gp. Rose (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Jade (50 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a trident on her belt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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 was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her childhood dream was to be a Spy, but she was a colossal failure. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing her hectic life and new bricklayer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: This western woman wears a red collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Verna's homeland. Verna decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp).