Description: He wears an entirely tan suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and carries bows. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: Korfel was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Wizard, 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 Wizard in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He found a children's book about a Elf Wizard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his auburn hair down. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has no hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is content

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1200 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She is wearing a long, blue cloak. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Birel was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1800 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. He wears his white fur down. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Greedy, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this southern man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He 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 he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'4". He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady silver eyes.

Personality: Barakas wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Rogue, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... 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 northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Banded mail.