Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, brown shirt, and violet tie. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north to a Herbalist, Quarion learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 47000 sp. Deep green spinel (110 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her brown hair is well kept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She is a Lamia in disguise. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Tordrid has worked very hard to control her curse. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a halberd on his belt. He has wavy black hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Adrik lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Navigator, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has wavy white hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Olivia lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She found a children's book about a Halfling Monk who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has wavy auburn hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Kathra is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Kathra lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Assassin. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in the east to a Assassin, Riswynn learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Riswynn grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Riswynn. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a hunter again

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 cp. Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Gifted from a young age, Avelina studied abroad. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Junk Dealer they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Performer, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Performer and was forced into it by her family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 130 gp.