Description: 3'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, violet shirt, and blue tie. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Umpen grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tabaxi companion (his 'brother'). He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. She has a hunchback. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When Whurdred reached her early adolescence her Dwarf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 230 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She wears a colorful flower in her silver crest. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2200 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears just a black suit. His hair is white and very short. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his black eyes.

Personality: He is a Cook first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Cook. He has worked as a Cook like his father before him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a pastel coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His fur, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is mildly Tabaxi supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gifted student he started as a Servant, but he got bored and became a Sage. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Jet (50 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is white and very short. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Phann grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Mundane, Fearful. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a brown shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has wavy red hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Trym fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 700 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).