Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Bookbinder. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 80 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: This southern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 60 gp. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has silver hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This dark-skinned female prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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, Travok is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Travok was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Glassblower, but he got bored and became a Apothecary. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Apothecary responsibilities is difficult; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 90 gp. Sard (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His childhood dream was to be a Guard, but he was a colossal failure. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Priest for hire.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Rose (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: Standing 5'4", this woman dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a white coat with brown slacks. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Silaqui grew up listening to her father's many stories. Silaqui abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (12 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. Her white fur is thinning but still full. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shifting studied abroad. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

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

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He wears a colorful flower in his dark red hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his black eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Locksmith but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born in a small forest village. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He bought a shortspear and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Banded mail.