Description: This woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her red hair is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears professional attire. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Tawar was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her purple hair up. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aym 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 Aym. Being a Engraver 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: Seeks redemption; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 pp. Jasper (70 gp). Sard (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears professional attire. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1900 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has wavy black hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. After coming to the age of reason, Huru took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. He is an epitome of beauty. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Moonstone (50 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears tattered old clothes. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Ekk has worked very hard to control her curse. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and dragonborn compassion

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 500 sp. Deep green spinel (40 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Unvera and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 110 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears tattered old clothes, marred by chocolates. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Frederick was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Frederick took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up hand crossbow and armor he uses now. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 sp.