Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Rose (20 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'8". She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and her gloved hand is found clutching a longsword. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Monk school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She's in love; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this southern woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Dilettante who has hired her part-time. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her brown fur is thinning but still full. This yellow eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Layabout business.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 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. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His crest is blue and curly. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1800 gp. Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has styled his dark red hair well, parting it to the left. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the east. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 180 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'5". She dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a red coat with brown slacks. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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 she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This woman wears skinny pants and wears a white and yellow robe with the hood down. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Gifted from a young age, Callie studied abroad. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), he is not a threatening figure. His brown hair is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the south were limited. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Bloodstone (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).