Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 120 gp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp).

Description: A 4'7" eastern woman, she wears a white shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and green pants. Her head has been shaved. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born in the east. She worked as a nervous Spy and found it very stressful. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Shoemaker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Healer, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Shoemaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her head has been shaved. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a white tunic with violet highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished sickle as well. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born into a rich family. He found a children's book about a Halfling Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1700 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She dresses like a well dressed Painter does. She has styled her black fur well, parting it to the left. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 2'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a red costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His hair is auburn and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. The war was a terrible time for him, and Hamil does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, 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. After a long history of fighting, Hamil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her auburn hair is well kept. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She got into the Body Guard business at a young age. 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 Body Guard. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Body Guard for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 sp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tabaxi, and stands approximately 6'1". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and her gloved hand is found clutching a quarterstaff. She wears her gray fur up. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fragrant grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Fragrant. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).