Description: This malnourished woman wears suspenders and red workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a Bellfounder first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She struck the Bellfounder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 150 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her golden hair is cut short. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Gerbo reached his early adolescence his Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Opinionated, Impeccable, Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Red spinel (80 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a blue tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her head has been shaved. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He takes great joy in being the best Detective in town.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His childhood dream was to be a Body Guard, but he was a colossal failure. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Detective and was forced into it by his family; and half-elven compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She stands about 6'2" and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is auburn and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: Volen hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shipwright business.

History: Volen was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His brown fur is still thick. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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 lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Selfish, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a blue vest and prefers violet and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is short and golden. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Qualen wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 30 pp.