Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear pastel tank tops with brown pants. He has brown fur. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 16. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an entirely brown suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. A true patriot, Harbek would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 pp. Black pearl (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She carries with her a set of tridents, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ratbag does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Ratbag took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Vondal speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vondal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2400 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His black crest is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Through the years after Patrin was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Patrin's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. 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.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1400 gp. Sard (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Jade (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his brown fur down. His ears are large.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Tabaxi in existence. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 190 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Ootah's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. 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, Ootah is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Bowyer business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. 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: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 30 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).