Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and green pants. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Callie is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor and is in decent physical shape. His fur is short and gray. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A freak accident while working with his Engraver mother left him crippled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing his hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a brown vest and prefers black and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His cinnamon fur is heavily combed to the left. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: The child of a Courier, who enjoyed hunting, Shadow was taken on many hunting expeditions. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Buckler.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the west. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tan trousers with brown and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Umpen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Umpen was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Umpen decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He became a Healer soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 370 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly quarterstaffs and greataxes. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his glaive with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His dark red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Rimmon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Seamstress. He became a Seamstress soon after.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a violet tunic with yellow highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eva wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... 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 pair of adventurers, Eva grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tabaxi companion (her 'brother'). She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 sp.