Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Whurbin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Herbalist. After a long history of fighting, Whurbin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and balancing his hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 12000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are green.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He worked as a nervous Beggar and found it very stressful. 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.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Coral (140 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Jet (140 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).

Description: She has a missing right arm. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull violet iron scale mail. She wears her white hair down. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Bune hails from a village terrorized by drow. Her parents were killed by drow in a raid when she was still a young child. The drow captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 4000 gp. Malachite (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp).

Description: She wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. She carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished greataxe as well. Her gray fur is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a Mayor, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 9000 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. His brown hair is cut short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born in the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and doesn't want to be a dyer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Coral (130 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. Her brown hair is well kept. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. 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: She was raised in a island tribe. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 7000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Arara lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 8000 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Rose (50 gp). Blue-white diamond (2000 gp). Amber (160 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Jade (160 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).