Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Volen hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Volen is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

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 father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Volen never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Jade (60 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose yellow pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She carries a battered falchion and tarnished dagger as well. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is baby faced.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jane grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Jane abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 pp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with tan slacks. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His tied-back hair is golden. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Amber (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Amber (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Amber (40 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Amber (100 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Rose (70 gp). Onyx (70 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tabaxi, and stands approximately 4'9". She wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and her gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. Her yellow fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

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 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: Art was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A freak accident while working with her Courier father left her crippled. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 7000 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is mildly Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She worked as a nervous Banker and found it very stressful. She tends to her Banker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 pp. Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His gray fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His eyes are yellow.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: The child of a Performer, who enjoyed hunting, Skirt was taken on many hunting expeditions. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Black pearl (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).