Description: She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. She is physically well-built. She has moderate length rusty crest. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born in the east. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20 pp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this southern man wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his whip. His silver hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Forcas 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp).

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She carries with her a set of shields, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her head has been shaved. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tabaxi culture. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She is a Doppelganger in disguise. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Tabaxi activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tabaxi doctor. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses well, wearing violet shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Korfel grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Korfel has worked very hard to control his curse. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. He has wavy golden hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a yellow scarf. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Ruler but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Arannis was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Jacinth (4000 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Katherine was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Katherine was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 70 gp. Jade (160 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. She has shaved her head bald. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Hlin is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Hlin lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp).