Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born in the west to a Barber, Balam learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: An older woman who is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, violet shirt, and yellow tie, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She has achieved small success as a Barkeep.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His yellow fur is heavily combed to the right. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Cask was born the youngest of three triplets. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform After a long history of fighting, Cask and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 5000 sp. White opal (1400 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a large green jacket. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His silver hair is lengthy. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She is an epitome of beauty. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Dilettante arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: Standing 6'4", this woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Flaws: Sensitive, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tan shirt with thin green vertical stripes and pastel pants. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Barrister kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is white and very short. Her ears are large.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Birel was born the youngest of three triplets. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Slave Trader they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Stableman, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4 Thunderstones.