Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears black trousers with white and red striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Murook abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. He has wavy blonde hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His childhood dream was to be a Fisher, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This late middle aged man is typically in his Guard uniform and is in decent physical shape. His fur is short and yellow. This copper eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

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. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Performer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. She has amber eyes and a grey hat with a red feather.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Miner who has hired her part-time. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Miner. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miner.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He has shaved his head bald. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Boddynock is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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 was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Human compassion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is portly but not overly obese. Her blue hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears green trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries a battered club and tarnished lance as well. He has red crest. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ghesh grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ghesh. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a grey collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.