Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has never given up on her music dream.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and wears a green cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his silver crest down. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Animal Trainer who has hired him part-time. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Family, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. After a long history of fighting, Beleth and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1300 gp). Onyx (40 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He worked as a nervous Spy and found it very stressful. After a long history of fighting, Zaffrab and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Scribe. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and flails. She has moderate length blue hair. Her half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Azza was raised in a hard working conservative environment. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Pacifist, Joker. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: A 5'3" western woman, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is long and black with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Soapmaker. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 15000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born in the north to a Detective, Keyleth learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Detective. She has taken up work as a Detective and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Cynical, PTSD. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'1". He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has moderate length golden hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Dondon's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Dondon was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Doctor.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1900 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (90 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. With bright silver hair. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.