Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her purple hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Miner profession.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Verin was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Verin was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tabaxi culture. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: Standing 6'4", this woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Seven will drive conversation. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 5000 cp. Golden pearl (90 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Xappan studied abroad. His first spouse was a Dyer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and doesn't want to be a cartwright and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He prefers to wear flannel. He has wavy blonde hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born in the east to a Performer, Bagabug learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When Bagabug reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. After a long history of fighting, Bagabug and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Zogdûsh was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Zogdûsh decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He uses divination through singing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shágflak 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 Shágflak. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: 6'7" and muscular, this eastern man wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He keeps his long red fur kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 150 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 340 gp.