Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. Her black fur is braided into rings. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Blacksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Blacksmith work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An older woman who has the majority of her body covered in plate, she is not a threatening figure. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Hugolina was born the youngest of three triplets. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: She got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She's also a talented Animal Trainer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Debt. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She has wavy silver crest. Her ears are large.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 150 gp. Carnelian (20 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Peren is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 50 gp. Rose (70 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a green Stetson hat and green clothes, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His rusty crest is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He hates Dragonborns with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and human compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Disease. Bonds: In love, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She got into the Tanner business at a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She tends to her Tanner job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. She is an epitome of beauty. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born to a Healer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Optimist, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 sp.