Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Sard (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She is a Slaad in disguise. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a violet vest and prefers green and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and he perpetually has his mace ready. His tied-back hair is brown. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Anselm is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Anselm and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp).

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. She is physically well-built. Her chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Opinionated, Athletic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His orange fur, when down, is lengthy. He has copper eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 90 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a blue tunic with tan highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes, marred by beers. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep green spinel (120 gp). Sard (20 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, and carries shortspears. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She got into the Locksmith business at a young age. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has worked as a Locksmith like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 30 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and pickaxes. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. A true patriot, Beiro would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.