Description: This tall, slender man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. He is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Brewer for hire.

Motivation: To protect his home; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Spice Merchant who has hired her part-time. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and wants a kiss

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 900 gp. Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He sports a flattop hair cut. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Euron is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. 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 never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 900 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Rose (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her blue crest is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has brown hair. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. Her black hair is knotted and matted. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Althaea 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: Many gnolls want her driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear flannel, and is pretty ugly. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Slave Trader for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 pp. Malachite (8 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His golden hair is cut short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. After a long history of fighting, Dabbledob and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1900 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. He is portly but not overly obese. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Robert is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. 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 Barkeep. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to be a body guard again

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 sp.