Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He has shaved his head bald. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Animal Trainer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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 to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Ghash 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. He uses divination through singing.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Slave Trader work with an outfit from a few towns over. Slave Trader work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He became a Slave Trader soon after.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears professional attire. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Caelynn embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a green vest and prefers black and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is physically well-built. Her crest is white and curly. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 56. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she likes to wear white tank tops with brown skirt. She wears her auburn hair down. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 6000 sp. Moss agate (12 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He is portly but not overly obese. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Wiggens hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Dreali enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Stylist business at a young age. Dreali 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. Dreali decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a Sailor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His childhood dream was to be a Bather, but he was a colossal failure. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 cp. A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).