Description: This late middle aged woman likes to wear violet tank tops with yellow skirt and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Mara was born the youngest of three triplets. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bookbinder they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Knight, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 sp. Fire opal (1400 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'6" and wears skinny pants and wears a black and green robe with the hood down. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His green crest is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Scribe soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 50 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp).

Description: She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She is physically well-built. Her golden hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Gorga was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 270 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of topaz and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and daggers. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is a great chef.

History: She was born in the south. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Jacoba is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Jacoba was born on a far eastern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Butcher. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 pp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Rose (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'4", this man wears baggy tan pantaloons and a grey scarf. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Kellen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this northern woman wears a grey vest and prefers green and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has a very tight haircut. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Herleva grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Herleva 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'8" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her blue hair is still thick. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She takes great joy in being the best Shepherd in town.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. 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 has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, PTSD, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 20 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an entirely blue suit with red socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He tends to his Healer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses sign language

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