Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 16000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a black shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Zephan was born with his mother's beautiful face. 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 3000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, and he perpetually has his trident ready. His silver crest is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is an amazing painter.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Iolite (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'8". She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and her gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. With bright auburn hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Nikki lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her childhood dream was to be a Bounty Hunter, but she was a colossal failure. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Crown-heir. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Chaedi is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 140 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'7". He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a longsword. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. The war was a terrible time for him, and Cressel 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. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is typically in her Carter uniform. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Diesa enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She worked as a nervous Carter and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Carter for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length orange fur. He has a dull look in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the north were limited. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 290 gp.