Description: This eastern man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. His dark red hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are white.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. 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 history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Through the years after Marbas was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Marbas's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears pastel trousers with red and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He keeps his long lavender fur kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Gifted from a young age, Fragrant studied abroad. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Obsidian (16 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and blue robe with the hood down. She has dyed her greying green crest a little too much giving a sharp green color. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Ruloth was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. 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 is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Secretive, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 pp. Deep green spinel (50 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a green armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. His purple hair is matted, messy, and big. This silver eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born in the west. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Balam and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 900 sp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Star ruby (500 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy bronze crest. He likes to wear black tank tops with green pants. He has a hunchback. His bronze crest is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tattered old clothes. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. He has violet eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thradal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Eye agate (10 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His gold crest is heavily combed to the left. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Arjhan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He wears his red fur up. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the south to a Carter, Kite learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To be a Layabout again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. She is baby faced.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Performer business.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 20 pp. 3 Smokesticks.