Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. 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: Armara was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Onyx (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Hematite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her fur is brown and very short. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She found a children's book about a Tabaxi Sorcerer 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 village for her children.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Cimer was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cimer fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His black crest is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a simple blue robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the west to a Roofer, Thervan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'4" and is typically in her Barrister uniform. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has brown eyes and a tan hat with a violet feather.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mara grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mara. She has worked as a Barrister like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Lazy, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She carries with her a set of nunchakus on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She has moderate length black hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Zanna was born with her father's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 380 gp. Red garnet (50 gp). Peridot (80 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy scarlet crest. She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She has a hunchback. She has no crest. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 150 gp.