Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has done her best to style her gray fur to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Smoking was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Weaver. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This woman is very fat, and typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Mundane. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 390 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Amber (110 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is content

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He takes great joy in being the best Guard in town.

History: Born in the north to a Guard, Morgran learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Tawar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top yellow hat.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: 2'10" and muscular, this eastern man sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a blue costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Eleanor reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.