Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a long, black cloak. He has moderate length black hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Ront hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 11000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is white and very short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Ekemon enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand his business; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1400 pp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a bow on her belt. She has a hunchback. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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 born several months after her mother was called into army service. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 18000 gp. Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bookbinder they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Merchant, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Peridot (50 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: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, black cloak. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Tanner. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Sard (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears baggy white pantaloons and a green scarf, and is pretty ugly. He has wavy red hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. He's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 12000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a fancy grey dress. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She tends to her Baker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Poor, Job, Debt. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 10000 gp. Coral (110 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.