Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He became a Crown-heir soon after.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He tends to his Painter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 sp.

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. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a Bather, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He struck the Jeweler job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a bather again

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy purple stubble. She prefers to wear flannel. She has a hunchback. Her purple hair, when down, is lengthy. This white eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Bune was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she has a crush on the local ruler

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sellsword who has hired him part-time. The war was a terrible time for him, and Chad does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'5" when asserting herself. Her black hair is still thick. This violet eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of a Assassin, who enjoyed hunting, Oriel was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student she started as a Assassin, but she got bored and became a Bowyer. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Malachite (9 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple violet line shooting up and back down. She has dyed her greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Shifting reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and carries scythes. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Kilvar was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 sp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: Beatrice is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.