Description: This southern woman dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination and is in decent physical shape. He wears his golden hair up. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Weaver but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Weaver kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her dark red hair is lengthy. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her 14th 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. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Armara never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His yellow fur is singed and shortened. His yellow eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Pelt 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. Pelt decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her silver hair is matted, messy, and big. 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 can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Gifted from a young age, Traulam studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her red fur is long and unkept. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Left-Handed embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. After coming to the age of reason, Left-Handed took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly axes and bastard swords. He wears his blonde hair down. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. 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 shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 150 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp).