Description: This woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her white eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Pyra will drive conversation. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a tan shirt with thin white vertical stripes and black pants. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Laborer profession.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gildmak grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 180 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His auburn hair is lengthy. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

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. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sculptor for hire.

Motivation: To be a Masseuse again; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a white collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tabaxi companion (her 'brother'). She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a pickaxe on her belt. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Trynnicus is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. The war was a terrible time for him, and Trynnicus does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries a battered rapier and tarnished sword as well. Her hair is white and curly. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Merla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. After coming to the age of reason, Merla 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 was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a black costume with the symbols of death on her torso. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She's also a talented Miller, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.