Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Mayor work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mayor work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 6'2", this woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a colorful flower in her scarlet crest. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Surina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Surina was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Surina decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bricklayer for the past few years.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cecily fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Blue quartz (9 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'11". He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a very tight haircut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. 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. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has a hunchback. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Ella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Armorer, but she got bored and became a Seamstress. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Seamstress responsibilities is difficult; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 cp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a pastel costume with the symbols of luck on her torso and is in decent physical shape. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, tan shirt, and blue tie. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Baker. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and gnomish compassion

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (60 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Holy water. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90 gp.