Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 5000 gp.

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 tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 2'9", this woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. She sports auburn long hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Paela was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp).

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a longbow on her belt, and she perpetually has her longbow ready. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length cinnamon fur. Her yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 16000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is long and silver with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 pp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). White opal (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a Slave Trader first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Coral (80 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Malachite (8 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gray eyes and a grey hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Gurdis was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Sculptor. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp).