Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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 daughter.

History: Tenena was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bricklayer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Healer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 140 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'0". He typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Armorer and was forced into it by his family; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with pastel pants. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Paelias speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has blonde hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

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. He worked as a nervous Brewer and found it very stressful. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a weaver again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This southern woman usually wears her violet robe and has her shortbow always slung over her shoulder. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born to a Courier, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mara 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 Mara. Being a Ploughman kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. She is an epitome of beauty. Her hair is golden and very short. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is mildly Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

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. She found a children's book about a Halfling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a hunchback. With bright brown hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform After a long history of fighting, Bethrynna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length copper crest. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Interpreter. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp).