Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her rusty crest is greasy and uncared for. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Nuthra will drive conversation. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is content; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a blue collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished warhammer as well. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Glim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Laborer, but he got bored and became a Butcher. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His blonde 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: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gimble was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gimble 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 Gimble. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He's in love; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 3 Holy water. 3 Holy water. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bather but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Elizabeth was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a blue tunic with red highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. She carries with her a set of quarterstaffs on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dara grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears his golden hair down. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He became a Banker soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: Standing 5'9", this man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His tied-back hair is golden. His ears are large.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has moderate length silver crest. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp.