Description: He very much looks the part of a Tanner. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Ploughman mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Gold and ruby ring (4000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2700 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears a pastel shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. She has yellow fur. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While she appears to be a normal Tabaxi, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1000 pp. Azurite (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Rose (50 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is long and unkept. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Claira was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 pp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (30 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a yellow poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Adelard's homeland. Adelard decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Jade (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue and beady.

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 cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gifted student he started as a Ploughman, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He tends to his Dilettante job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Ploughman; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Amethyst (120 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She usually wears her blue robe and has her sai always slung over her shoulder. She carries a battered flail and tarnished sai as well. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has blue eyes and a blue hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Menny will drive conversation. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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 left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her auburn hair is still thick. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.