Description: This woman wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His rusty crest is long and unkept. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Mehen hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. 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: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Scribe again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white fur. He wears a brown shirt with thin red vertical stripes and tan pants. He has a hunchback. His fur is cut close to his head. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 15000 sp. Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Egelina hails from a village terrorized by drow. Egelina 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 ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Brewer for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'4" when asserting himself. His hair is long and red with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He is baby faced.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Harbek grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Blacksmith and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is greedy

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady white eyes.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. A true patriot, Vepar would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Vepar was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tiefling conditions. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

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

Possessions: 40 gp.