Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is white and curly. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). White pearl (40 gp).

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His blue hair is braided into rings. His black eyes peer out from beneath his small green hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tethren studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has done her best to style her copper crest to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has worked as a Barrister like her mother before her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her long lavender fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her yellow eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sweet fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Amber (160 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and grey pants. He carries a battered kukri and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Skog was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. A gifted student he started as a Server, but he got bored and became a Laborer. He tends to his Laborer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Laborer responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Indian accent

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

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a green costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. He has wavy brown hair. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Melech embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Melech was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Warrior, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Warrior in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Melech abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. After a long history of fighting, Melech and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Vani has worked very hard to control her curse. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again; and expand her business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 gp. Jet (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Ivellios was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Ivellios alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp.