Description: This malnourished woman is typically in her Mason uniform. She has wavy golden hair. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson grey hat.

Personality: Katherine is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Mason work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mason work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She struck the Mason job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her auburn hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Griselda was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 160 gp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears long strands of ruby and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His fur is short and brown. His eyes are copper and catlike.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, River isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tabaxi unity. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: The child of a Shoemaker, who enjoyed hunting, River was taken on many hunting expeditions. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Dee never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, In love, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 sp. Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: This eastern woman wears a black vest and prefers brown and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver crest is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Biri enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a Merchant, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the east were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. He has a very tight haircut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Howard hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly tridents and nunchakus. He has a very tight haircut. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Baker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 20. 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. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ahlyssa grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 sp.