Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is cut short. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahlyssa 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 Ahlyssa. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He carries with him a set of hammers on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He wears his blonde hair down. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 43. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Gifted from a young age, Varis studied abroad. His first spouse was a Architect, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'1". She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A freak accident while working with her Detective mother left her crippled. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Rose (50 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp).

Description: He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Direcris hails from a village terrorized by giants. His first spouse was a Apothecary, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is portly but not overly obese. He has red hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Thorpe isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thorpe 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 Thorpe. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 5000 sp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). White opal (500 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull red iron scale mail. She keeps her lavender fur in a flapper bob. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. 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: Sun lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. Her red hair is lengthy. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Dragonborn culture. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Bellfounder arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tabaxi culture. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Racist, Impulsive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has auburn hair. She has brown eyes and a grey hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp.