Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Chem isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Chem was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1700 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears just a brown suit. Her brown hair is cut short. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Gurdis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Knight for hire.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp).

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He sports a flattop crest cut. His eyes are gold.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Kaladan embodies much of what other species detest in the Dragonborns. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kaladan grew up listening to his father's many stories. 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 Butcher. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes, and is pretty ugly. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He got into the Banker business at a young age. His first spouse was a Sellsword, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with tan slacks. Her red fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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 now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She has wavy black hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Ovina 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. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a hunchback. She has wavy blonde hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: Krakhorn was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Stylist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stylist work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He became a Stylist soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 50 pp.