Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She dresses like a well dressed Slave Trader does. She wears her black hair down. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Joan embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the north to a Slave Trader, Joan learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Through the years after Joan was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Joan's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Joan and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 sp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears dull black sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has brass crest. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson black hat.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He got into the Courier business at a young age. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 50 gp. Jade (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a blue collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has no hair. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his broad blue hat.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Aquamarine (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished scimitar as well. He wears his auburn hair down. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with green slacks. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Arumawann was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Through the years after Arumawann was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Arumawann's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Azurite (8 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'8" and wears a black collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ishgha is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Servant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'7" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length scarlet crest. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to be a spice merchant again

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Wella was born the youngest of three triplets. Her first spouse was a Adventurer, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She bought a hammer and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants, marred by teas. She has red hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 sp.