Description: She wears dull pastel sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed longsword, just in case. She carries with her a set of longswords on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her long brown fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Cask lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She has wavy brown hair. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and 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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Amethyst (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 700 gp. Jade (160 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small tan hat.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He carries with him a set of kukris, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. Anthony 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Apothecary and was forced into it by his family; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Nirgel was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He became a Dyer soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears just a grey suit. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Roland 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 used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes. She has done her best to style her cinnamon fur to look like a famous performer. She has yellow eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Bookbinder 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: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Naill was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Body Guard. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 sp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).