Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shax grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave, Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a simple blue robe with white stripes complete with hood. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Quarion was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and carries warhammers. She sports blonde long hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

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. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears an eyepatch.

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 is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born in the south to a Spy, Aline learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Aline took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To be a Courier again.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoprase (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her flail, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She is a Lamia in disguise. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and tan handkerchief worn on her right side. Her bronze crest is singed and shortened. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Jezean lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 900 gp. Rose (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. 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: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears brown trousers with pastel and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a very tight haircut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, John never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a hammer on her belt. She keeps her black fur in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise copper.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Tabaxi, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Emotional, Insomniac, Insane. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20 gp.