Description: This light-skinned female wears a red tunic with violet highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has moderate length golden hair. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tabaxi people.

Flaws: Selfish, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is still thick. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He has no hair. He has brown eyes and a violet hat with a tan feather.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lucan grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Has a crush, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gifted student she started as a Body Guard, but she got bored and became a Barrister. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red crest. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has a hunchback. He has no crest. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Nithther has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Zircon (70 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Emerald (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her head has been shaved. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: She was born into a rich family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and pastel robe with the hood down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and kukris. He wears his black fur up. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady yellow eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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. Being a Barber kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the north to a Map Maker, Perra learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Tailor, but she got bored and became a Map Maker. She tends to her Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Map Maker responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Aust was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. 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. After a long history of fighting, Aust and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 16000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Red garnet (80 gp).