Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her whip, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. She sports brown long hair. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born in the west. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mardnab 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 Mardnab. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Pacifist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair is long and white with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Ridaro lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gifted student she started as a Detective, but she got bored and became a Sage. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she usually wears her black robe and has her shortspear always slung over her shoulder. Her white hair is thinning but still full. This black eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Navigator hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tabaxi people; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 40 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this western woman wears a simple yellow robe with black stripes complete with hood. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. A true patriot, Andraste would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Through the years after Andraste was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Andraste's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Andraste and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a simple tan robe with blue stripes complete with hood. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Traulam was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ploughman hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Caelynn will drive conversation. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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. Caelynn fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 90 gp.