Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. After a long history of fighting, Názkûga and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His orange fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Avice will drive conversation. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Avice took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up pickaxe and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 260 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He sports a flattop fur cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Sweet was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2700 pp. Banded agate (5 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Pink diamond (5000 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). 1 Major magic item. 1 Major magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Hunter was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bookbinder. He has achieved small success as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 pp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears dull brown sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed monstrous two handed axe, just in case. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has done her best to style her gray fur to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Born to a Carter, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his white hair up. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 50 gp.