Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He takes great joy in being the best Butcher in town.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Butcher. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and red handkerchief worn on her right side. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Veloptima hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Banker they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bricklayer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly spears and daggers. His fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Pelt lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. Being a Marshal kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She is wearing a long, green cloak. She carries with her a set of crossbows on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her ears are large.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She got into the Navigator business at a young age. In her youth she was a Hunter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Navigator.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Don was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Spice Merchant. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'4" when asserting herself. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Reddlepop is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Reddlepop lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He stands about 3'4" and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He bought a glaive and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and gnomish compassion

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

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

Possessions: 20 pp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His tied-back hair is blonde. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a Crown-heir first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Dustin was born the youngest of three triplets. Dustin was born on a far southern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Crown-heir. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To be a Slave Trader again.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp.