Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Ombul was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Crown-heir. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Crown-heir.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 2'10" and prefers to wear flannel. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and black robe with the hood down. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Lilli alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1800 sp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears tattered old clothes. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Shivering was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is cut close to his head. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nicor studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nicor 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 Nicor. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in an above average manner. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has achieved small success as a Mortician.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears suspenders and pastel workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time, and is pretty ugly. Her fur is beige and curly. Her eyes are copper and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gale isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tabaxi unity. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Gale is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She 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. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'0". She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bastard sword.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to protect her home

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp).