Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is typically in his Merchant uniform. His red hair is cut short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 40 pp. Azurite (10 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Five was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Unemployed for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a barkeep again

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears baggy red pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in a small forest village. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He keeps his black crest in a pixie cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His first spouse was a Bookbinder, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. 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: Doesn't want to be a Layabout and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 90 gp. Pink pearl (110 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on her left side. With bright white hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. She has green eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Antinua lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Family, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her silver hair is wavy and long. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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: She was born in a small forest village. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Servant they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Weaver, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her fur is short and lavender. Her eyes are likewise yellow. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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. After a long history of fighting, Smoking and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp.