Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her feathered brown hat.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Engraver who has hired her part-time. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Engraver. She has worked as a Engraver like her mother before her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Has a crush, Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born in the north. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Kristryd and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greataxes and pickaxes. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. Being a Shepherd 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: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2300 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. Her cinnamon fur is braided into rings. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is mildly Tabaxi supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Emerald was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Addict, Racist, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sard (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Amber (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp).

Description: He wears a tan coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head, and he perpetually has his nunchaku ready. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. 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 he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a simple pastel robe with violet stripes complete with hood. His orange fur is smooth and relatively long. He has green eyes and a pastel hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Kite was born with his father's beautiful face. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a Assassin soon after.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He wears his golden hair down. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Nora was born with her mother's beautiful face. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and prefers to wear flannel. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Vanchu was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. 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. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 gp.