Description: A plain young-adult man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Glassblower and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. He wears his silver hair up. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Gormogord lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and doesn't want to be a apothecary and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (130 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the south to a Engraver, Mamnen learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Engraver. He has worked as a Engraver like his father before him.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 210 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and she perpetually has her longbow ready. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Five was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Gardener. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a shield on his belt. He has dyed his greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has amber eyes and a pastel hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears long strands of aquamarine and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 35. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ozyman 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 Ozyman. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Sarai has worked very hard to control her curse. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sarai fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp).

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Map Maker. She carries a battered halberd and tarnished greataxe as well. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

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 is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born into a rich family. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Deep green spinel (50 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and blue robe with the hood down. He carries with him a set of greatswords on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His tied-back hair is blonde. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 10 pp. Jasper (70 gp).