Description: 4'8" and muscular, this eastern woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She enjoys reading and quiet.

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. When Shifting reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Animal Trainer for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'3", this man wears an entirely brown suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His fur is black and curly. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears grey trousers with white and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has no hair. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Painter.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: Standing 5'0", this woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. The war was a terrible time for her, and Jacoba does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 sp. Amethyst (40 gp). Amber (40 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small blue hat.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Buckler.

Description: This light-skinned female prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Tourmaline (40 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Theodoric will drive conversation. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Through the years after Theodoric was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Theodoric's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a longsword, but if one is not available he will default to his sai. His chestnut hair is still thick. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Trey lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Panana was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Armorer. 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: An old rival family wants her found; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1900 sp.