Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Doctor. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Heather was born with her mother's beautiful face. She worked as a nervous Doctor and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Doctor.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 50 pp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Average lock. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Superior lock.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Dilettante profession.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Geva was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bookbinder. She struck the Bookbinder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 cp. Jade (150 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Marshal job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Elama was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stylist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

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 is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Drusilia never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Insane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants. He has moderate length gray fur. His ears are large.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Stableman but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Alexandrite (1600 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He keeps his black fur in a flapper bob. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 Apothecary. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1600 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she likes to wear tan tank tops with red skirt. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 8000 sp.