Description: 5'8" and muscular, this northern woman wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered orcs who tried to eat her hand. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Mastema was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He is physically well-built. He has no crest. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Pandjed's homeland. Pandjed decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature ceremonial dagger.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She very much looks the part of a Butcher. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. She has blue eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born into a rich family. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2400 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries hand crossbows. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She married young, but lost her spouse to drow. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and many drow want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This southern man wears an entirely yellow suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He got into the Barrister business at a young age. Gennal was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Barrister. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, In love. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears professional attire, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Kilia hails from a village terrorized by illithids. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants revenge against illithids

Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. He wears his cinnamon fur up. His yellow eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism, Persistence. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Krusk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His hair is golden and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. John abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He tends to his Soapmaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 9000 sp. Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Blue-white diamond (2000 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.