Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears an entirely blue suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Althaea was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Mason. She struck the Mason job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the east to a Bowyer, Carrie learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His childhood dream was to be a Barber, but he was a colossal failure. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: To be a Barber again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Pyxrin hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pyxrin 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 Pyxrin. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (15 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). 1 Average lock. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: Sabotage a competitor; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She sports auburn long hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Torgga never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is blonde and curly. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 15000 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has chestnut hair. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Tiefling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tiefling doctor. She bought a scimitar and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to tiefling people

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her red hair is still thick. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents enrolled her in a Commoner school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She tends to her Animal Trainer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 390 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Shoemaker profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Farmer. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 sp.