Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her white hair is still thick. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mardnab will drive conversation. 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, Mardnab is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Mardnab was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Mardnab decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

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.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. After a long history of fighting, Gennal and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She has brown hair. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a Barber, her father struggled to pay the bills. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a quarterstaff on his belt. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Merchant business.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. Peridot (30 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'4". She wears bulky tan painted plate armor, and her gloved hand is found clutching a crossbow. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Abalaba was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She's also a talented Performer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. She has dyed her greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. She bought a shortspear and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 290 pp. Jade (40 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Amethyst (40 gp).

Description: She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe, and carries axes. She has brown hair. She has white eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Kallista enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1100 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (30 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 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 (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 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: This man is very fat, and dresses like a well dressed Layabout does. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Bhevek is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Farmer father left him crippled. He became a Layabout soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (70 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp).