Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her broad white hat.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To protect her home; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Guardian. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and silver. Her ears are large.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Bella lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her red hair is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She uses divination through singing.

History: Salanop was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears bulky violet painted plate armor. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tabaxi culture. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished hammer as well. Her black hair is heavily combed to the left. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This man wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: To protect his home; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a falchion, but if one is not available he will default to his crossbow. He wears his bronze crest up. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a tan vest and prefers brown and red shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Zaffrab 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. Zaffrab 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a green vest and prefers blue and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (120 gp).