Description: 4'11" and muscular, this eastern woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hecat fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a flattop crest cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Shamash was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Server. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Sailor they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Server, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and doesn't want to be a server and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Server

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4 Antitoxin.

Description: An older woman who wears baggy brown pantaloons and a yellow scarf, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She likes to wear white tank tops with black skirt. She has shaved her head bald. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Ilga never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and she is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, In love, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

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

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a white coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head and is in decent physical shape. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sarai grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a farmer again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3 Thunderstones.

Description: This man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Map Maker. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Map Maker for hire.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 31000 sp. Red garnet (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'8". She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, and her gloved hand is found clutching a lance. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Scribe but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Rose was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Shax lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Shax was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Shax's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: 3'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. She has wavy white hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Mumpena was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Terse, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 230 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.